Chechens welcomes the wives of ISIS ex-combatants

The Chechen has allowed women and children to return to the country again despite refusing most of the countries to do the same, Guardian newspaper reported on Saturday.

The return of hundreds of women and children from Syria and Iraq is a main issue for Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin says 4,000 Russian citizens have traveled to Syria and Iraq, as well as 5,000 from the former Soviet Union, including 700 women from countries such as Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, with more than 1,100 children.

The Chechen authorities have organized 12 flights of evacuation from Syria to the capital Grozny. According to Andrew Roth, a journalist specializing in terrorist groups, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has several motives for the return of women from areas controlled by Daesh.

Kadyrov wants to keep the Chechen militants under state control, and his moves support his image as a Muslim leader who believes in giving the wrongdoers another chance. Russia faces a bigger problem because the number of Russian citizens who have traveled to Syria is about 4,000, according to President Vladimir Putin, as well as 5,000 other citizens of the republics of the former Soviet Union.

The return of wives of ex-combatants in the terrorist organization to their countries has provoked widespread controversy, prompting several governments to ban them, as Britain did with Schmima Begum,  as well as the United States refuse entering Al-Muthanna to her homeland in Alabama.