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50 jihadists, 168 family members repatriated from Syria to Iraq

2023-06-05

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50 jihadists, 168 family members repatriated from Syria to Iraq #MiddleEast https://t.co/BPwDpJfNQw
— Naharnet (@Naharnet) June 4, 2023

Fifty 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-group jihadists and 168 Iraqi members of jihadist families were repatriated from Syria to Iraq on Saturday, an Iraqi official said.

Iraqi authorities "received 50 members of the Islamic State from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)," said the source who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The SDF are the Kurds' de facto army in the area, and led the battle that dislodged Islamic State group fighters from the last scraps of their Syrian territory in 2019.

They will "be the subject of investigations and will face Iraqi justice," they added.

According to conflict monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights they were detained in Hasakeh, northeast Syria.

Additionally, 168 relatives of IS-group members were repatriated from Syria's al-Hol camp to be relocated to al-Jadaa camp south of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, the Iraqi official added, where they will undergo psychiatric treatment.

"Once we receive the assurances of their tribal leaders that they will not face reprisals, they will be sent home."

Al-Hol camp,

...sometimes spelt al-Hawl camp...

in Kurdish-controlled northeast Syria, is home to about 50,000 people including family members of suspected jihadists. Among them are displaced Syrians, Iraqi refugees as well as more than 10,000 foreigners originally from some 60 countries. Nearly half of the camp's population is under the age of 12.

Since May 2021, hundreds of families have been transferred from al-Hol to al-Jadaa in Iraq, with a number of those going on to flee.

In December 2021, Iraqi authorities announced plans to close al-Jadaa. But little progress has been made and the relocation of displaced people to their home regions has proven challenging and prompted opposition from local people.

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