{"id":38969,"date":"2019-04-12T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38969"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:24:08","slug":"31000-iraqis-to-return-home-under-syrian-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38969","title":{"rendered":"31,000 Iraqis to return home under Syrian deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1481281\/middle-east\" readability=\"83\">\n<p>\nQAMISHLI: Syrian Kurds have announced a deal with Baghdad for 31,000 displaced Iraqis, mostly women and children, to return from camps in northeastern Syria to Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>\nTens of thousands of people live in the camps, which swelled during the months-long battle by a Kurdish-led force against the last vestige of Daesh\u2019s \u201ccaliphate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cA delegation from the Iraqi Cabinet visited the autonomous administration to discuss the return to Iraq of displaced Iraqis, estimated to number 31,000, and an agreement was reached,\u201d said Kurdish official Mahmud Kero.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cSo far 4,000 people have signed up and we are waiting for the Iraqi government to open up the Iraqi border\u201d to begin the returns, he said. Kero said many of the displaced, including children born on Syrian soil, did not have Iraqi identity papers.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe have asked the Iraqi government to find a solution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\nThose expected to return do not include suspected Daesh fighters who surrendered or were caught fleeing the terror group\u2019s last redoubt and are now held at Kurdish-run jails.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe have asked for the return of all Iraqis including those accused of belonging to Daesh,\u201d Kero said.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said they had called for \u201cthe trial of those accused of belonging to Daesh on Iraqi soil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAn Iraqi official said on Tuesday that Baghdad had made preparations for the return of tens of thousands of citizens, most of them \u201cwomen and children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThey were mostly displaced from Nineveh and Salaheddin, two provinces north of Baghdad that were once Daesh bastions, said Ali Abbas, an official at the ministry of displacement and migration.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe returnees would be housed in a camp near northwestern Iraq\u2019s Sinjar region, to be completed within two months, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QAMISHLI: Syrian Kurds have announced a deal with Baghdad for 31,000 displaced Iraqis, mostly women and children, to return from camps in northeastern Syria to Iraq. Tens of thousands of people live in the camps, which swelled during the months-long battle by a Kurdish-led force against the last vestige of Daesh\u2019s \u201ccaliphate.\u201d \u201cA delegation from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38969","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\/38969","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=38969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}