Iraq repatriates more families from IS-linked Syria camp

US President Donald Trump, Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin and his wife Mary O'Shea during St. Patrick's Day in the East Room of the White House on March 12, 2025, in Washington, DC. [AFP]

Iraq has repatriated more than 150 additional families from Al-Hol camp in neighbouring Syria, an Iraqi security official said on Thursday, the latest such transfer from the camp where many have alleged jihadist links.

Kurdish-run camps and prisons in northeastern Syria still hold about 56,000 people from dozens of countries, many of them the family members of Islamic State group (IS) suspects, more than five years after the jihadists' territorial defeat in Syria.