About 30,000 people from 60 countries - most of them children - remain stranded in two overcrowded camps in Syria.
The US has repatriated 11 of its citizens and six Canadian children from camps in north-eastern Syria.
Ten of the US citizens are reportedly members of a single family.
The six Canadians are all children.
Four Dutch citizens and a Finnish citizen were also repatriated by the state department.
About 30,000 people from 60 countries - most of them children - remain stranded in two overcrowded camps in Syria.
The camps, Al-Hol and Roj, are run by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, which battled the Islamic State group for years until the fall of its so-called caliphate in early 2019.
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