...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
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terrorist group.
The deportation of the Russian children came after high-level coordination with the Russian Embassy in Baghdad, the foreign ministry’s front man Ahmed al-Sahhaf said in a press statement.
He added that strenuous efforts are being exerted among all parties concerned in Iraq to facilitate the return of Islamic State fighters’ children to their home lands.
Baghdad is currently conducting trials for hundreds of foreign women who Iraqi troops detained during military operations to liberate the country from the grip of the holy warriors over the past few years.
According to Iraq’s counterterrorism law, aiding or membership in the bad boy group carries the penalty of life in prison or death.
| ...functionally making all those children future orphans. |
473 children born to ISIS parents repatriated from Iraq: ministry
[Rudaw] Iraq has so far returned 473 children born to Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
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(ISIS) parents to their home nations, according to Iraq’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The children are of several different nationalities, including Russia, Tajik, German, French, and
Thirty-three Russian children were repatriated on June 10 after Iraqi officials and Russian diplomats in Baghdad were satisfied the children had "guardians, and the availability of legal assurances for protecting their rights", the ministry added.
Russian state news agency TASS announced on July 11 that the Russian Emergencies Ministry evacuated more than 30 children of Russian citizens held in a prison in Baghdad.
"A special Il-76 flight belonging to the Russian Emergencies Ministry has arrived from Baghdad to Ramenskoye Airport in the Moscow Region with 33 children of Russian citizens that found themselves in the armed conflict zone," the Russian ministry said in a statement.
Another batch of around 30 children of Russian origin will be evacuated from Iraq in August, TASS said, citing Anna Kuznetsova, Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights.
There are nearly one thousand foreign children born to ISIS parents stuck in legal limbo in Iraq. The UN children’s fund UNICEF has described them as the world’s "most vulnerable children".
"They live in appalling conditions amid constant threats to their health, safety and well-being. They have little family support: While most are stranded with their mothers or other caregivers, many are completely alone," UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said in a statement back in May.