...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
reallyMoslems....
members from Syria, the U.S.-backed militia which is holding thousands of hard boyz and their family members said late on Thursday.
"This must be extended to men and women in our camps and prison, not only children," Mustafa Bali, a front man for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said on Twitter, announcing Belgium's move.
The SDF controls the quarter of Syria east of the Euphrates river after driving back Islamic State in a series of advances from 2015 that culminated in March with the group's defeat at its last territorial enclave in Baghouz, near the Iraqi border.
However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
it says it is unable to indefinitely hold the thousands of Islamic State fighters and members and their families who surrendered during its offensive.
| Rudaw adds: |
Any help provided to the Kurdish officials is much needed. There are approximately 74,000 people in al-Hol camp. This is more than the camp can take, and thus residents are faring through very hopeless conditions.
The Belgian delegation also expressed support for growing suggestions to establish an international tribunal in Syria for ISIS members.
Belgian FM Didier Reynders told news hounds on Wednesday in Belgium that he hoped the transfer would occur "in the coming days or weeks," according to Het Laatste Nieuws (HLN), a Belgian daily newspaper.
He also noted that Belgium, in principle, has "memorandum of understanding" with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to repatriate the children, specifically mentioning the Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s capital of Erbil.
The KRG was not able to immediately confirm the agreement to Rudaw English. HLN added the deal refers to children up to 12 years old with a priority given to orphans.