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| Iraq takes back 100 IS fighters from Syria Kurdish forces |
| 2021-12-09 |
| [Al Ahram] "This morning we collected 100 terrorists" held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters in Syria, General Abdul Amir al-Shammari told AFP. The jihadists "have been handed over to the intelligence services for questioning," said Shammari, deputy commander of Joint Operations which coordinates between Iraqi security forces and the international anti-jihadist coalition. The SDF alliance has led the anti-IS fight with the support of a coalition led by Washington. It previously handed over about 100 Iraqi IS fighters to Baghdad in February and again in September, according to Iraqi security sources. The Syrian Kurdish administration, which controls large swathes of northeast Syria, has at times been reluctant to communicate on issues related to IS fighters or their families held by Kurdish forces in prisons or camps in Syria. In 2019, the SDF had handed over about 900 Iraqis to Baghdad, most of them captured while trying to flee the last remaining IS strongholds in Syria, according to Iraqi judicial sources. Some 1,600 Iraqis suspected of having fought for IS are still being held by the SDF, according to a UN report. |
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