Iraq to issue documents for children returning from Syria

HASAKAH, Syria (North press) – The government will issue documents to Iraqi children returning from displacement in Syria, Iraqi Ministry of Migration and Displaced Deputy, Karim al-Nouri said on Sunday.

On May 5, Sherwan al-Dubardani, an Iraqi parliamentarian, revealed the start of the process of transferring ISIS families of Iraqi nationality from Hawl Camp, northeast Syria, to Jada’ camp in al-Qayyarah district of Nineveh governorate.

“Dozens of Iraqi children were born during the period of their families’ displacement in Syria, when ISIS took control of the city of Mosul, and they remained throughout this period without official documents,” al-Nouri added.

He pointed out that the Iraqi government will start issuing documents to them through the General Directorate of Nationality, which has sent teams to the camp they returned from in the north of the country.

North Press obtained statistics from official Iraqi newspapers confirming that 48% of Hawl Camp are Iraqis: 18,830 from Anbar, 1,101 from Baghdad and Diyala, 5,787 from Saladin and Kirkuk, and 4,401 from Mosul.