MUNICH: ‌About 3,000 Daesh detainees have so far ​been transferred from Syrian prisons to Iraq and the process is continuing, Iraq’s foreign minister said on Friday, ‌adding that Baghdad ‌was ​in ‌discussions ⁠with ​some countries to ⁠repatriate them soon.
Speaking in a wide-ranging interview with Reuters on the sidelines of the Munich ⁠Security Conference, Fuad ‌Hussein ‌said Baghdad would ​need more ‌financial assistance to ‌deal with the influx, and warned that there had been a ‌recent uptick in Islamic State activity in Syria.
He ⁠said ⁠that, while Baghdad took the United States’ signals seriously, the nomination of former prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki to take up the role again was ​an ​internal issue.