US EditionBaghdad says it will prosecute Islamic State militants being moved from Syria to Iraq
Iraq will try transferred Islamic State detainees amid security concerns and shifting alliances, with up to 7,000 suspects expected to be moved from Kurdish-run camps.
- The U.S. military began moving Islamic State detainees from Syria's northeastern prisons and camps to Iraq, transporting 275 prisoners by air and land.
- After Syrian advances last month routed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, the United States said this month its alliance with the SDF had largely expired as Syrian government forces pressed an offensive.
- Iraq formed a coordination committee including the justice ministry, Iraqi air forces and anti-terrorism forces to manage transfers, while Iraq's judiciary said it will launch legal proceedings in Baghdad Sunday.
- The transfers have renewed calls for European states to repatriate and try their citizens, while Amnesty International urged safeguards and fair trials without the death penalty as the European Union monitors transfers.
- Meanwhile, al-Hol camp, which hosts thousands of women and children, has seen aid deliveries resume, while Iraqi officials warn of Islamic State sleeper-cell activation and say up to 7,000 detainees could be transferred.
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Iraqi administration announced that fighters of the jihadist group, transferred from Syrian detention centres under U.S. mediation, will face national trial after investigations by U.S. security forces
Iraq to prosecute IS militants transferred from Syria under US-brokered deal
Baghdad: Baghdad will prosecute and try militants from the Islamic State group who are being transferred from prisons and detention camps in neighbouring Syria to Iraq under a US-brokered deal, Iraq said Sunday, January 25. The announcement from Iraq’s highest judicial body came after a meeting of top security and political officials who discussed the ongoing transfer of some 9,000 IS detainees who have been held in Syria since the militant grou…
DEXYPTAGE - The United States hastily evacuated them to Iraq. France refuses to repatriate its own people, preferring to finance their detention.
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Baghdad says it will prosecute Islamic State militants being moved from Syria to Iraq
Baghdad says it will prosecute and try militants from the Islamic State group who are being transferred from prisons and detention camps in neighboring Syria to Iraq under a U.S.
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