Iraq rejects Syrian request to repatriate 4,000 suspected IS detainees, official says - WRAL

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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq has rejected Syria’s request to repatriate thousands of suspected Islamic State members transferred from Syrian detention centers to Iraqi custody earlier this year, a senior Iraqi security official said. Iraqi National Security Advisor Qasim al-Aboudi said Wednesday that a meeting had been held recently between Syria, Iraq and the United States to discuss the fate of the prisoners. Other WRAL Top Stories Al-Aboudi said Syria had requested that the approximately 4,000 Syrian prisoners be handed over to be tried in Syria, but Iraq refused. Iraq has determined that about 400 …