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Thirty Russian children whose mothers are in prison in Iraq for belonging ISIS have arrived in Moscow from Baghdad, Russian authorities said.
The fathers of the children, aged three to ten years old, are believed to have been killed in combat during Iraq's three-year war against the extremist group, a Russian diplomatic source said.
"The plane of the Russian emergency situations ministry has landed," Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Sunday on his Telegram account, adding that it had touched down at Moscow's Zhukovsky airport.
Mr Kadyrov said their arrival was "undeniable proof of the rigorous fulfilment of the mission set out by Russian President Vladimir Putin to save the women and children in Syria and Iraq".
"If we do not bring them home, they will become the target of the special services of other countries," he added.
The children were taken to hospital on arrival for "thorough examinations", the press service of Russia's health ministry said according to Russia's Interfax news agency.
Meanwhile on Sunday Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi held talks in Baghdad with Anna Kuznetsova, the Russian president's envoy for the rights of children.
During the meeting, Mr Abdel Mahdi said a "distinction should be made between humanitarian issues and terrorist crimes", according to a statement from his office.
"These children are also victims," he added.
More than 300 people, including around 100 foreigners, have been sentenced to death and many others to life imprisonment in Iraq for joining ISIS, the Sunni extremist group which at its peak controlled nearly a third of the country.
https://www.thenational.ae/world/eur...-iraq-1.807893
As the end nears for the IS enclave in Syria and the fate of jihadists' family members becomes a prescient issue, Russia can be seen as a pioneer in systematically returning children of Islamist fighters home.
Clutching stuffed toys and bundled in winter jackets, the children were carried off the cargo plane to face the Russian winter after years in the desert.
After health exams, they would be given into the care of their uncles, aunts, and grandparents in the Russian North Caucasus, the majority-Muslim territory in the south of Russia that is home to most of the Russians that had joined the Islamic State group.
"They attend school and kindergarten. Volunteers work with them and talk to them about what they have been through, explaining how they have been indoctrinated," said Kheda Saratova, an advisor to Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who has assumed a central role in the process of repatriating Islamists' relatives.
Russian authorities have given sometimes conflicting figures of returnees. Saratova said that about 200 children have been brought to Russia, but nearly 1,400 are still stuck in Iraq and Syria.
Endorsing Kadyrov's efforts, President Vladimir Putin in late 2017 called the drive to return the children "a very honourable and correct deed" and promised to help.
Although some regions have tried rehabilitation programmes for Islamic extremists, these have failed to catch on at the national level. Young men who returned from Syria or Iraq and turned themselves in have faced harsh punishment.
This month Russia's Supreme Court confirmed a 16-year-term for a young man who went to Syria as a 19-year-old student and worked as a cook and driver on IS-controlled territory for six months.
FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov in November noted that many women with children exiting conflict zones have been used by jihadists as suicide bombers or recruiters.
"The FSB sees them as dangerous, even though many of these wives purchase their freedom from the Kurds and will eventually return one way or another," said Saratova.
Any affiliation with Islamic State jihadists is a crime, since the group is banned under Russian law.
Last year, two women returned from Syria to their native Dagestan and were swiftly convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison. The court eventually ruled to delay their time in prison until their children are older.
The children themselves face a difficult reintegration process into life in Russia, a country they barely know, after spending formative years in the "caliphate".
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/europe/top...ren/ar-BBTKllU
Dus de kinderen integreren in de maatschappij, met behulp van psychologen, de school, familieleden, etc.
De vrouwen die hand- en spandiensten verleenden moeten hun straf uitzitten bij terugkeer, want dat zijn geen onschuldige slachtoffers.
Degene die gevochten hebben, en misdaden begaan, moeten berecht worden in Irak en Syrië en worden daar hoogstwaarschijnlijk ter dood veroordeeld.
De teruggekeerde vrouwen zouden ook publiekelijk hun schuld moeten bekennen "voor het verraad aan het vaderland" en berouw betonen tijdens openbare zittingen waar iedereen aanwezig mag zijn.
Wie weigert krijgt langere straffen.