The Joint Operations Command has received 50 ISIS fighters with Iraqi citizenship from the Syrian side, the Iraqi Security Media Cell reported today, Saturday, after their seizure inside Syrian territory.
In a separate statement, it added that the transfer of ISIS components took place at the Rabia border crossing on the Syrian side.
She stated that the required steps will be taken against ISIS members who have been turned over to Iraq by the Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior.
The Joint Operations Command is still monitoring terrorist groups both inside and outside of Iraq, the statement said.
Over 50 additional ISIS officials and fighters were captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces and transferred to Iraq yesterday, Friday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Early in June, the Iraqi government announced that 50 members of the group had been turned over to Kurdish forces. 3,500 Iraqi prisoners are held by the Syrian Democratic Forces, according to a top military source at the time.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a Kurdish official, the Kurdish Autonomous Administration on Friday turned over 700 persons to the Iraqi government, the bulk of them are relatives of ISIS combatants held in a camp in northeastern Syria.
According to the observatory, more than 620 family members of the organisation evacuated the al-Hol camp as a result of collaborative cooperation between the camp administration and the Iraqi authorities.
According to an Autonomous Administration official who declined to be identified, these people make about 150 families and departed the camp on Thursday, including women, children, and men, some of whom are sick.
In recent months, hundreds of Iraqis from families thought to have ties to ISIS have left the al-Hol camp. Before returning some of them to their homes, Iraqi officials frequently bring them to the Al-Jadaa camp in Mosul’s southern region.
According to the Iraqi News Agency, Ali Abbas Jahangir, a spokesman for the Ministry of Migration and Displacement, 500 families were planned to be transferred from Al-Hol camp this year in stages.
Security incidents like escape attempts, assaults on security personnel or aid workers, or killings involving camp residents frequently occur at the Al-Hol camp, which is home to over 56,000 people, almost half of whom are Iraqis.
Eight of the 30 people killed by ISIS cells inside the camp since the year’s beginning have been Iraqis, according to the observatory. The UN and other international organisations have issued warnings about the camp’s potentially disastrous scenario.
50 ISIS prisoners were moved from Syria to Iraq.
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