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Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Kareem Chehayeb

Baghdad says it will prosecute Islamic State militants being moved from Syria to Iraq

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Baghdad will prosecute and try militants from the Islamic State group who are being transferred from prisons and detention camps in neighboring Syria to Iraq under a U.S.-brokered deal, Iraq said Sunday.

The announcement from Iraq’s highest judicial body came after a meeting of top security and political officials who discussed the ongoing transfer of some 9,000 IS detainees who have been held in Syria since the militant group's collapse there in 2019.

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