More funds needed to deal with influx of Daesh prisoners transferred from Syria says Iraq FM

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.

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