Iraq could help transfer non-Iraqi Islamic State detainees held by the Syrian De...
BAGHDAD - Iraq could help transfer non-Iraqi Islamic State detainees held by the Syrian Democratic Forces in Syria, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Tuesday.
“Some countries could ask Iraq to help to transfer some of her Daesh citizens to the other country, like France for example,” Abdul Mahdi said, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State. “Iraq might help, would help, helped to transfer those people to their country. It is one battle and Iraq should fulfill its duties and obligations.”
Earlier in the press conference, the prime minister specified that Iraq would not receive from Syria foreign fighters whose home countries refused to take back from Iraq. The fate of foreign detainees in SDF custody has become more pressing in recent weeks as U.S.-backed fighters planned an assault to capture the last remnants of the group’s self-styled caliphate. [nL5N20L5KE]
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