US EditionIraq starts investigations into IS group detainees moved from Syrian camps
Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council has started counter-terrorism investigations for 1,387 IS detainees transferred from Syria, following a US-led operation moving up to 7,000 prisoners.
- On Monday, Iraq's judiciary announced it has begun investigations into 1,387 Daesh detainees recently transferred from Syria as part of a US operation.
- On June 21, US Central Command announced it began transferring up to 7,000 ISIS suspects from Syria to Iraq after Syrian government forces seized Kurdish-held territory.
- Under the supervision of the head of Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council, several counter-terrorism judges started investigating detainees, including Syrians, Iraqis and Europeans, held in al-Hol and al-Roj camps.
- Iraqi courts have a history of handing down hundreds of death sentences and life terms to terrorism convicts, while CENTCOM said the transfers aim to keep terrorists in secure detention facilities.
- At the time of the 2024 report, Amnesty International said the SDF was responsible for torture and `mass death` in facilities holding 56,000 people, including 30,000 children.
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There are many thousands of people who have been living in concentration camps for almost a decade since the first historic attempt to put into operation an 'Islamic world caliphate', the so-called Islamic State (Daesh by the acronym in Arabic) with its capital in Raqa and territory conquered by fire in Syria and Iraq. The fanatic Islamists who responded to the call of jihad, the holy war against the West, before being defeated in open camp by t…
The Iraqi Judicial Council announced on Monday the start of investigations into 1,387 members of the "ISIS" organization who were transferred from Syrian prisons via the US military, under the supervision of the head of the Judicial Council, Faiq Zaidan...
Iraq starts investigations into Islamic State suspects transferred from Syria
Legal officials in Iraq said they were starting to investigate more than 1,300 members of the Islamic State group who had been moved into the country's prisons from Syria. IS suspects were transferred after Syria's new government recaptured Kurdish-held territory.
Iraq Starts Investigating 1,300 ISIS Detainees the US Transferred from Syria - News From Antiwar.com
Iraq's judiciary announced on Monday that it has begun investigating more than 1,300 ISIS detainees who the US recently transferred from Syria after Syrian government forces captured territory held by the Kurdish-led SDF, where the ISIS fighters were held. "Investigation proceedings have started with 1,387 members of the terrorist organization…
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