Iraq says Ankara agrees to take back Turkish citizens among ISIS detainees transferred from Syria

FILE PHOTO: U.S. military vehicles move ahead of buses transporting Islamic State detainees from Syria to Iraq, according to a security source from the Syrian Democratic Forces, in Qamishli, Syria, February 8, 2026. REUTERS/Orhan Qereman/File Photo

Feb 23 (Reuters) - Iraq's foreign ⁠minister said on Monday Turkey had agreed to take back ⁠Turkish citizens from among thousands of Islamic State detainees transferred ‌to Iraq from Syria when camps and prisons there were shut in recent weeks.

Iraq took in the detainees in an operation arranged with the United States after Kurdish ​forces retreated and shut down camps and ⁠prisons which had housed Islamic ⁠State suspects for nearly a decade.