Canadians accused of joining ISIS moved out of Syria to prisons in Iraq
Global News
At least five Canadians may be among those now before Iraq's judiciary.
Suspected ISIS members from dozens of countries including Canada have been moved out of Syria to prisons in Iraq, an official confirmed on Friday.
Iraq’s judiciary announced that more than 5,700 detainees had been transferred into its custody and that they were citizens of 61 countries, including Canada.
While more than half are Syrians, the National Center for International Judicial Cooperation listed Canada among the “most prominent foreign nationalities.”
The others included citizens of Germany, Russia, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, South Africa, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
The statement did not specify how many Canadians were sent to Iraq, nor identify them by name. Global Affairs Canada said only that it was monitoring the situation.
But Global News has identified at least five Canadian men who were being held in Syria prior to the transfer, including a self-admitted ISIS sniper from Mississauga, Ont.
Dozens of extremists left Canada to join ISIS. While most were killed, Kurdish fighters took several into custody during the final stages of the conflict in 2019.
The federal government flew the women and children back to Canada in 2022 and 2023, but left the men in the custody of the Kurdish forces.
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