...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....
(ISIS) members from Syria, Iraq's Security Media Cell said on Saturday.
The cell says the handover took place at the Rabia border crossing in coordination with Iraq's Joint Operations Command.
The SDF arrested thousands of ISIS fighters and their wives and children when they took control of the group’s last stronghold in Syria in March 2019.
Most are being kept at al-Hol camp in north-eastern Syria, which officials have referred to as a ticking time bomb. It is populated by more than 60,000 people - mostly women and kiddies of different nationalities.
ISIS sleeper cells are active in the camp and multiple deaths have been reported over the past months. Many Iraqi nationals have also been returned to Iraq from the camp, despite Iraq being one of the world’s top executioners, according to
Since the rise of ISIS in 2014, thousands of people have been detained across Iraq for suspected links to terrorist groups, including ISIS, while hundreds have been executed. At least 17 people sentenced to death for terror charge were executed in 2020, reported AFP while Amnesty recorded 100 executions in Iraq in 2019, a number that dropped to 45 in the following year.
The SDF arrested thousands of ISIS fighters and their wives and children when they took control of the group’s last stronghold in Syria in March 2019.
Most are being kept at al-Hol camp in north-eastern Syria, which officials have referred to as a ticking time bomb. It is populated by more than 60,000 people - mostly women and kiddies of different nationalities.
ISIS sleeper cells are active in the camp and multiple deaths have been reported over the past months. Many Iraqi nationals have also been returned to Iraq from the camp, despite Iraq being one of the world’s top executioners, according to
Since the rise of ISIS in 2014, thousands of people have been detained across Iraq for suspected links to terrorist groups, including ISIS, while hundreds have been executed. At least 17 people sentenced to death for terror charge were executed in 2020, reported AFP while Amnesty recorded 100 executions in Iraq in 2019, a number that dropped to 45 in the following year.