WASHNGTON: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that Washington welcomed Iraq’s initiative to detain Daesh members in secure facilities in Iraq while also urging nations to repatriate their citizens in these facilities “to face justice.”
“The United States welcomes the Government of Iraq’s initiative to detain Daesh terrorists in secure facilities in Iraq, following recent instability in northeast Syria,” Rubio said in a statement. “Non-Iraqi terrorists will be in Iraq temporarily; the United States urges countries to take responsibility and repatriate their citizens in these facilities to face justice.”
Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council said on Thursday it would begin legal proceedings against Daesh detainees transferred from Syria, a day after the US military announced its forces had transferred 150 of the suspected militants from Syria to Iraq.
The US military has said its operation could eventually see 7,000 detainees moved out of Syria.
The United Nations said it was taking management responsibility for vast camps in Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children associated with Daesh, after the rapid collapse of Kurdish-led forces who guarded them for years.
Iraq has begun taking in detainees transferred from prisons in Syria as the Kurds retreat, and has called on other countries to help take them in.
“This is a critical part of a long-term framework to prevent an Daesh resurgence, in line with proper burden sharing among Coalition members,” Rubio said on Thursday.
More than 10,000 members of Daesh, and tens of thousands of women and children associated with them, have been held for years in about a dozen prisons and detention camps guarded by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria’s northeast.
The SDF has rapidly retreated this week after clashes with Syrian government forces, raising concern about security at prisons and humanitarian conditions at the camps.
US welcomes Iraq’s step to take Daesh militants from Syria
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US welcomes Iraq’s step to take Daesh militants from Syria
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio urges nations to repatriate citizens detained in prisons for the extremist group
- US military moving thousands of detainees from camps and prisons in Syria
Iran FM criticizes Israel for ‘doctrine of domination’
- Doctrine allows Israel to expand its military arsenal while pressuring other countries in the region to disarm
- His remarks came a day after renewed nuclear talks with Washington in Oman
DOHA: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Saturday criticized what he said was a “doctrine of domination” that allows Israel to expand its military arsenal while pressuring other countries in the region to disarm.
His remarks came a day after renewed nuclear talks with Washington, with previous talks collapsing when Israel launched an unprecedented bombing campaign against Iran last June that triggered a 12-day war.
Araghchi was speaking at the Al Jazeera Forum conference in Qatar but made no reference to Friday’s talks with the United States.
“Israel’s expansionist project requires that neighboring countries be weakened: militarily, technologically, economically and socially,” Araghchi said.
“Under this project Israel is free to expand its military arsenal without limits ... Yet other countries are demanded to disarm. Others are pressured to reduce defensive capacity. Others are punished for scientific progress,” he added.
“This is a doctrine of domination.”
During the 12-day war Israel targeted senior Iranian military officials, nuclear scientists and sites as well as residential areas, with the US later launching its own attacks on key nuclear facilities.
Iran responded at the time with drone and missile attacks on Israel, as well as by targeting the largest US military base in the Middle East, located in Qatar.
On Friday, Araghchi led the Iranian delegation in indirect nuclear talks with US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff in Muscat.
The top Iranian diplomat later described the atmosphere as having been “very positive,” while US President Donald Trump said the talks were “very good,” with both sides agreeing to proceed with further negotiations.
The talks followed threats from Washington and its recent deployment of an aircraft carrier group to the region following Iran’s deadly crackdown on anti-government protests last month.
The United States has sought to address Iran’s ballistic missile program and its support for militant groups in the region — issues which Israel has pushed to include in the talks, according to media reports.
Tehran has repeatedly rejected expanding the scope of negotiations beyond the nuclear issue.
