BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb 24 (NNN-NINA) – Iraqi security forces received, Saturday, a second batch of 180 Daesh militants, captured by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in neighbouring Syria, a security source, said.
“The Iraqi army received from SDF up to 180 terrorists from the Daesh group, who are Iraqi nationals,” an officer from al-Jazira Operations Command in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, said.
“The terrorists were transferred in a convoy of trucks to one of the Iraqi army’s headquarters in the town of al-Qaim, near the Iraqi Syrian border,” said the officer, whose command is responsible for the security of the western part of Anbar and the borderline with Syria.
The Iraqi army, border guards and paramilitary Hashd Shaabi forces, participated in securing the road of the convoy from the border point to the military base, where the militants will be interrogated, he added.
The handover process between Iraqi forces and SDF has been carried out through cooperation between the Iraqi army and the Iraqi intelligence service, according to media reports.
On Thursday, the SDF handed over a total of 150 militants to the al-Jazira command, after the battles of liberating the last Daesh stronghold in Baghouz, which was the last Daesh-held area in the eastern Euphrates River region, in Syria’s eastern Deir al-Zour province.– NNN-NINA
