{"id":33169,"date":"2019-02-25T11:27:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T11:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33169"},"modified":"2019-02-25T11:27:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T11:27:10","slug":"iraqs-president-in-paris-will-discuss-french-daesh-detainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33169","title":{"rendered":"Iraq\u2019s president in Paris; will discuss French Daesh detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1457731\/middle-east\" readability=\"71\">\n<p>\nPARIS: Iraqi President Barham Saleh is on a two-day visit to France with a focus on the country\u2019s security and the fight against the Daesh group in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\nSaleh will have a working lunch Monday with French President Emmanuel Macron, followed by a joint news conference. They are expected to discuss the case of French citizens who traveled to fight with Daesh in Iraq and Syria and are now being detained by the US-led coalition\u2019s forces.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe US has called for countries to take back and try their own nationals. France\u2019s official position states that French \u201cterrorist\u201d fighters \u201cmust be tried wherever they committed their crimes,\u201d according to the French foreign affairs ministry. France considers the Iraqi legal authorities are in charge of handling the cases of Daesh members on their territory.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe issue of captured foreign fighters in Syria poses a major conundrum for countries whose nationals have been imprisoned in the country. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces is holding more than 900 foreign fighters in prisons it runs in the country\u2019s north, many of them Iraqis and Europeans.<\/p>\n<p>\nLast week, the SDF handed over more than 150 Iraqi members of the Daesh group to Iraq, an Iraqi security official said.<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso last week, a French diplomatic official and a SDF official said they were trying to verify reports that Fabien Clain, a Frenchman who is one of Europe\u2019s most-wanted members of Daesh, was killed in an airstrike in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe French presidency said France intends to reaffirm its full support to Iraq to face challenges regarding security, stability, inclusive governance and the country\u2019s reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p>\nBoth countries also are seeking to strengthen their economic cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>\nFrance remains militarily involved in Iraq through training and logistical support of Iraqi forces and intelligence missions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: Iraqi President Barham Saleh is on a two-day visit to France with a focus on the country\u2019s security and the fight against the Daesh group in the region. Saleh will have a working lunch Monday with French President Emmanuel Macron, followed by a joint news conference. They are expected to discuss the case of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}