Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces stand guard over veiled women in al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria, which houses relatives of Islamic State group members
The Guardian: Iraq seeks multibillion dollar fee to receive Isis prisoners
Baghdad in talks with US to receive remnants of terror group held in detention centres in Syria.
Baghdad and Washington are in talks to transfer and place on trial tens of thousands of suspected Isis fighters and their families from detention centres in Syria to prison camps in Iraq, with Iraqi officials seeking a multibillion dollar fee to receive remnants of the terror group captured over five years of war.
Discussions about what to do with Isis members, among them thousands of foreign men, women and children, have been pushed intensively by US officials, who have also lobbied coalition partners to remove their citizens from two cramped detention centres in Syria’s north-east, which one former senior US official described as a “volcano”.
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Update: Iraq offers to try foreign IS suspects, for a price (AFP)
WNU Editor: Iraqi justice when it comes to ISIS fighters is short and brutal .... Iraq’s Post-ISIS Campaign of Revenge (New Yorker).
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