BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 13 (NNN-NINA) – Iraqi security forces received Friday, a batch of 200 Daesh militants captured by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in neighbouring Syria, a security source said.
“Iraqi security forces have received 200 militants, who are Iraqi nationals, from the Kurdish-led SDF,” an officer from al-Jazira Operations Command, responsible for security in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, said.
The officer said, “The detainees were transferred to prisons of the Interior Ministry, for interrogation and prosecution by the Iraqi judiciary.”
With the latest batch of detainees, Iraq has so far received four batches of militants captured and extradited by the SDF, bringing the number of detainees handed over to Iraq to 680, the officer added.
The handover process between Iraqi forces and the SDF was carried out through cooperation between the Iraqi army and the Iraqi intelligence service.
In Feb, the SDF began extraditing captured Daesh militants to the Iraqi forces, after the liberation of the last Daesh stronghold of al-Baghouz, which was the last Daesh-held area in the eastern Euphrates River region, in Syria’s eastern Deir al-Zour province.– NNN-NINA
