MUNICH: Baghdad needs more financial assistance to deal with the influx Daesh detainees, Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said Friday, adding he was worried about a rise in Daesh activity just over the border in Syria.
Speaking in a wide-ranging interview on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Hussein said thousands of detainees had so far been transferred from Syrian prisons to Iraq, adding that the process was continuing.
And he said Iraq was in talks with countries to repatriate them soon.
Daesh swept through large swathes of Syria and Iraq in 2014 before it was driven out by a US-led coalition by 2019, and many of its fighters were detained, although remnants of the militant group remain.
The US military said on Jan. 21 it had started to transfer the detainees and expected to move some 7,000 fighters.
