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Over 100 children born to Daesh terrorists to repatriated to Turkey from Iraq

Wednesday, 18 December 2019 4:07 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 18 December 2019 4:14 PM ]

In this file photo, children born to Daesh Takfiri terrorists receive training at a camp run by the extremists in an undisclosed location in Syria’s northern province of Raqqah.

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry says a group of more than one hundred Turkish children, whose parents are being held in the Arab country for membership in the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, are going to be repatriated from Baghdad later this month.

The ministry’s spokesman, Ahmad al-Sahhaf, told the Arabic service of Russia’s Sputnik news agency on Wednesday that the repatriation of the 125 children will take place on December 26, stating that it is the result of coordination between the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, the Supreme Judicial Council and security authorities.

Over 60 children born to Daesh terrorists repatriated to Uzbekistan from Iraq

Uzbekistan says 64 children have arrived in the Central Asian country from Iraq, where their parents are serving life sentences as members of terrorist organizations.

Sahhaf noted that the forthcoming return will take the number of Daesh children repatriated to their respective countries to 723.

Earlier in the day, the senior Iraqi official told Sputnik that the Baghdad government had sent 598 children born to the elements of Daesh terrorist group back home.

33 children of Russian Daesh militants return home from Iraq

Thirty-three Russian children, whose mothers are in prison in Iraq for membership in Daesh, have been repatriated from Baghdad.

Sahhaf said the repatriated Daesh children were mostly nationals of Turkey, Russia, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Germany, France, Sweden, Georgia, Belarus, Ukraine, Algeria, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

He noted that the Iraqi Foreign Ministry has invited all world countries, whose nationals were fighting within the ranks of Daesh and other Takfiri militant groups, to coordinate with the Baghdad government and receive their children.