...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), an Iraqi official told Rudaw on Sunday.
To be fair, some hundeds or a few thousand of them are Yazidis and others captured and taken as slaves by ISIS during their heyday, who never escaped.
Ali Abbas, spokesperson for the Iraqi Ministry of Migration and Displaced, said that Iraq has repatriated over 10,000 nationals from the camp.Iraqis and Syrians make up the majority of the 40,000 ISIS-linked people who have been held at al-Hol camp in Rojava’s Hasaka province since the military defeat of the terror group in 2019. The camp has been branded as a humanitarian disaster and a breeding ground for terrorism by security experts.
Last month, Iraq repatriated 150 families from the camp.
Abbas told Rudaw in July that the largest number of families repatriated in one batch this year was 190, adding that there are currently over 900 families residing in al-Jada rehabilitation camp in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province. While in al-Jada, the repatriated individuals are prepared for reintegration into their communities and then returned to their places of origin.
Iraqi National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji said in March that around 20,000 Iraqis below the age of 18 remain at al-Hol.
In June, the Iraqi migration ministry revealed that Iraq and the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
reached an agreement to repatriate all Iraqi nationals from the camp by 2027.
The repatriation of ISIS-linked citizens has sparked opposition in Iraq, with tribes unwilling to accept and welcome people associated with the group that committed heinous human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
abuses and war crimes from 2014 to 2017, when they controlled vast swathes of the country.