Iraq repatriates 150 ISIS-related families from Syria’s Hawl per month
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Minister of Migration and Displacement, Evan Jabro, determined that 150 Iraqi families are returning from Hawl Camp, in northeast Syria, on monthly basis.
The Iraqi News Agency (INA) said, citing Jabro, that the families are repatriated after completing the verification process by the National Security Advisory and the National Security Agency.
Hawl Camp, 45 km east of Hasakah, is a house for 55.829 individuals, including 28.725 Iraqis, 18.850 Syrians and 8.254 foreign nationalities, according to the latest statistics obtained by North Press.
The repatriated Iraqi nationals return to their areas after completing the rehabilitation process, according to the Minister.
Jabro also confirmed that the ministry is providing grants on a monthly basis for the repatriated nationals.
ISIS lost its final stronghold in Syria in March 2019. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), with the support of the US-led Global Coalition, defeated ISIS after fierce battles in the town of Baghouz in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, bringing an end to the ISIS so-called caliphate.
After Baghouz, thousands of ISIS fighters were transferred to prisons, while their families were transferred to Hawl and Roj camps in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)-held areas.
Five years after the defeat of ISIS in Syria, the issue of families perceived as associated with the group, known as ISIS families, still poses considerable security, social and economic challenges to the limited-capability Kurdish-led local authority in northeast Syria.