Syria hands over 50 ISIS members to Iraq
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Joint Operations Command-JOC announced on Saturday that Syria handed over 50 Iraqi terrorists to Iraq.
In a statement, Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported, citing Security Media Cell (SMC) as saying, “Through joint understandings and agreements, the aim of combating ISIS terrorist gangs at the regional and international levels, JOC has received 50 terrorists from ISIS gangs who hold Iraqi citizenship through the Rabia border crossing road.”
The Rabia-al-Ya’rubiyah (Tel Kocher) crossing between Syria and Iraq is under the control of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).
“The ISIS members were handed over to Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency (FIIA) at the Iraqi Ministry of Interior for purpose of investigation and taking the necessary legal measures against them, according to SMC,” according to the source.
Over the past years, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has handed over several batches of ISIS detainees who bear Iraqi citizenship to the Iraqi government, while hundreds of ISIS militants are still kept in prisons of northeast Syria under SDF supervision.
Prisons holding ISIS members in northeastern Syria, especially the al-Sina’a prison in the city of Hasakah, witness riots from time to time, last of which al-Sina’a prison attack in January.
On January 20, ISIS sleeper cells attacked al-Sina’a prison, where thousands of ISIS inmates are detained, whom the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested during the years of war to defeat ISIS.