Syria’s Autonomous Administration dismisses reports about sending back Daesh detainees to Iraq
The local administration in
northeast Syria has dismissed media reports about sending back Iraqi citizens
linked to the Islamic State, aka Daesh.
Kamal Akef, a spokesman for the
Autonomous Administration’s foreign relations department, said some 30,000 Iraqi
refugees, who are not linked to Daesh, would be transferred.
“These are false and unreliable
news. There was a meeting between an Iraqi official delegation and the Autonomous
Administration’s foreign relations department. The discussion focused on the
situation of Iraqi civilian refugees totaling around 30,000 in areas under Autonomous
Administration’s control. It has nothing to do with Daesh,” Akef said.
Akef said that some 4,000 Iraqi
citizens, including women and children, had registered their names to return to
Iraq voluntarily.
