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Fate of militants' families remains uncertain
At least 100 European Isis fighters will be prosecuted in Iraq, with most to face the death penalty, the country's ambassador to Belgium has reportedly said.
Jawad al-Chlaihawi said Belgians were among those detained, along with jihadists from Russia, Chechnya and Central Asia.
Fighters from around the world joined Isis's call to arms as the group established its so-called caliphate across Iraq and Syria in 2014.
British fighters, including the notorious Mohammed Emwazi, also known as 'Jihadi John', were among them. He is believed to have been killed in a drone strike in Raqqa, Syria in 2015.
Mr Chlaihawi told Belgium's RTPF there were around 1,400 family members of foreign fighters, including children, of suspected Isis members being held near Mosul.
Many are reportedly from Turkey, and former Soviet countries in Central Asia, but there are also believed to be some French and Germans among them.
It is unclear what will happen to the families and children of members of Isis, also known as Daesh.
"We are holding the Daesh families under tight security measures and waiting for government orders on how to deal with them," Army Colonel Ahmed al-Taie told Reuters.
He added: "We treat them well. They are families of tough criminals who killed innocents in cold blood, but when we interrogated them we discovered that almost all of them were misled by a vicious Daesh [Isis] propaganda."
Source: independent.co.uk, October 7, 2017
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