US EditionEuropeans Are Among the 150 Isis Detainees Transferred From Syria to Iraq
About 150 Islamic State detainees, including foreign nationals, are being transferred from northeastern Syria to Iraqi prisons for interrogation and trial amid security concerns, U.S. Central Command said.
- On Wednesday, U.S. Central Command said the transfer process began, moving 150 IS members from Syria to secure locations in Iraq.
- After a Shaddadeh prison escape on Monday, Iraqi and U.S. officials pressed for action as about 120 inmates fled, and Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani raised transfers in a Tuesday call with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
- 144 detainees arrived in Iraq Wednesday night, an Iraqi intelligence general said, including Iraqi citizens and foreign nationals such as around 240 Tunisians, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan detainees.
- Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council said Thursday that Iraqi courts will prosecute transferred detainees, while Basim Alawadi called it `a pre-emptive step to protect Iraq's national security`; additional transfers depend on ongoing evaluations.
- Al-Hol camp, once around 73,000 at its peak in 2019, now holds about 24,000, while Gweiran prison in Hassakeh held about 4,500 IS-linked detainees and Roj camp houses about 2,500.
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150 IS detainees transferred to Iraq
Europeans were among 150 senior Islamic State group detainees transferred this week by the US military from Kurdish custody in Syria to neighbouring Iraq, whose premier urged EU countries to repatriate their nationals. They were among an estimated 7,000 jihadists due to be moved to Iraq as the Kurdish-led force that has held them for years relinquishes swathes of territory to the advancing Syrian army. In 2014, IS swept across Syria and Iraq, co…
The Iraqi government announced that it had received 150 detainees from the Islamic State group, who were transferred from northeastern Syria, amid strict security and judicial arrangements to handle their cases...
Why Islamic State group prisoners in northeast Syria are being transferred to Iraq
BEIRUT (AP) — Recent fighting between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria got close to detention facilities where thousands of Islamic State group members are held. The U.S. military says that it has started the process of transferring many of them to secure locations in Iraq. Syrian government forces have taken control of one of the detention facilities where about 9,000 IS members are held in Syria. About 120 inmat…
Europeans are among the high-ranking prisoners of the Islamic State (IS) group transferred from Syria to neighbouring Iraq as part of an American military operation, said to AFP on Friday, 23 January, two Iraqi security officials. In this context, the EU expressed "extremely concerned" about possible escapes of jihadists.
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InternazionaleTurkey says Syria ceasefire should hold during Islamic State prisoner transfers to Iraq
ANKARA, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Turkey's foreign minister said the current ceasefire in Syria should remain in place while Islamic State prisoners are transferred to Iraq, saying this would limit security risks.Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in a televised interview that the truce between Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces was necessary to prevent instability during the transfer process and to avoid further desta…
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