Some 20,000 Iraqis could return from Syria in weeks - Red Cross

GENEVA (Reuters) - Around 20,000 Iraqis in Syria, including women and children who fled Islamic State's last enclave, are expected to be sent home in weeks under an agreement with Baghdad, a senior official of the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Monday.

Thousands of people - many of them the wives of Islamic State fighters and their children - have streamed out of the besieged enclave at Baghouz over the past weeks, forcing the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to delay an assault to wipe out the last vestige of the jihadists' territorial rule.