Iraq rejects Syrian request to repatriate 4,000 suspected IS detainees, official says - Midland Daily News
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- العراق يرفض طلب سوريا إعادة 4,000 محتجز مشتبه بانتمائهم لتنظيم داعش، وفق ما أفاد به مسؤول
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- Iraq rejects Syrian request to repatriate 4,000 suspected IS detainees, official says - Midland Daily News
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq has rejected Syria’s request to repatriate thousands of suspected Islamic State members transferred from Syrian detention centers to Iraqi custody earlier this year, a senior Iraqi security official said. Iraqi National Security Advisor Qasim al-Aboudi said Wednesday that a meeting had been held recently between Syria, Iraq and the United States to discuss the fate of the prisoners. Al-Aboudi said Syria had requested that the approximately 4,000 Syrian prisoners be handed over to be tried in Syria, but Iraq refused. Iraq has determined that about 400 Syrian detainees were n…source ↗