DUBAI: Karen Pence, the wife of Vice President Mike Pence, is in the UAE for the Special Olympics.
She traveled to Abu Dhabi for the start of the Special Olympics World Games. On Wednesday, she watched the US take on Kenya in a soccer match.
She also greeted athletes and posed for photographs.
In a video posted by the US Embassy in Abu Dhabi, she described it as “such a privilege” to lead a delegation to the games.
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Karen Pence, wife of US vice president, visits the UAE
Karen Pence, wife of US vice president, visits the UAE
- She described her visit as “such a privilege” to lead a delegation to the games
- She traveled to Abu Dhabi for the start of the Special Olympics World Games
Thirty four Australians released from Syrian camp holding Daesh affiliated families
- Roj camp holds more than 2,000 people from 40 different nationalities, the majority of them women and children
ROJ CAMP: Syrian Kurdish forces on Monday released 34 Australians from a camp holding families of suspected Daesh militants in northern Syria, saying they would be flown to Australia from Damascus.
Hukmiya Mohamed, a co-director of Roj camp, told Reuters that the 34 Australians had been released to members of their families who had come to Syria for the release. They were put on small buses for Damascus.
Roj camp holds more than 2,000 people from 40 different nationalities, the majority of them women and children.
Thousands of people believed to be linked to Daesh militants have been held at Roj and a second camp, Al-Hol, since the militant group was driven from its final territorial foothold in Syria in 2019.
Syrian government forces seized swathes of northern Syria from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in January, before agreeing a ceasefire on January 29.
The US military last week completed a mission to transfer 5,700 adult male Daesh detainees from Syria to Iraq.
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