...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) from northeast Syria’s (Rojava) notorious al-Hol camp to al-Jada camp in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh, a ministerial official told Rudaw on Monday.
Iraqis have made up more than half of the population of al-Hol camp in Rojava’s Hasaka province for years. Most of the camp's 56,000 residents are wives and children of the Islamic State (ISIS) fighters.
"Another batch of ISIS-affiliated families, numbering 152, are set to be repatriated to Iraq from al-Hol camp on Tuesday," Ali Jihangir, spokesperson for Iraq’s Ministry of Migration and Displaced, told Rudaw’s Hastyar Qadir on Monday.
The families are from the provinces of Nineveh, Salahaadin, and Anbar, and will be transferred to al-Jada camp for rehabilitation before they’re sent back to their homes, the spokesperson added.
Iraq has so far repatriated 750 families from al-Hol, 450 of which have completed the rehabilitation process and been sent back to their original places of residency, according to Jihangir.
Al-Jada is one of just two camps still open in areas under federal Iraqi control, and mainly houses families with suspected links to ISIS.
| The Times of Israel adds ‘tis done: |
"The Iraqi government repatriated 161 families, including 659 people, from al-Hol camp to Iraq," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Iraqi families left al-Hol camp, which lies less than 10 kilometers (six miles) from the Iraqi border for their home country in a move coordinated by Iraqi authorities, the monitor said.
A Kurdish security source who requested anonymity said that 634 Iraqis had crossed from al-Hol to their country on Tuesday.
The UN said more than 100 people have been murdered in the increasingly lawless camp since the start of 2021.
Kurdish forces arrested more than 200 people last month, after a three-week operation against IS supporters there discovered tunnels used by jihadists and seized an arsenal of weapons.