[Rudaw] Over 100 Iraqis, who had fled to Syria in the face of the 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....
(ISIS) attack a decade ago, were repatriated through Kurdistan Region’s main border crossing with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
on Thursday. The process will continue in the coming days, spokesperson for Iraq’s migration ministry said.
"A total of 126 Iraqi citizens have been returned to Iraq from Tal Abyad [Gire Spi], Ral al-Ain [Sare Kani], Idlib and Azaz via the Iraqi-Ottoman Turkish border," Ali Abbas, spokesperson for Iraq’s migration and displaced ministry, told Rudaw, referring to Ibrahim Khalil border crossing in Duhok province.
The returnees are from the provinces of Salahaddin, Nineveh, Anbar, and Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
Abbas explained, adding that in the coming two days, more people are expected to be repatriated.
"Many of our citizens have been displaced since 2014, and their return through Turkey and the Ibrahim Khalil border crossing in coordination with the Iraqi embassy in Turkey, the Iraqi consulate in Gaziantep, the ministry of transportation and our ministry branch in Duhok," he said.
Following the collapse of Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now...
’s regime on December 8, the ministry asked Iraqi citizens residing in Syria who wish to return, to contact the embassy and register their names. 
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