Iraq prepares to expel 500 foreign Islamic State wives

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Iraq prepares to expel 500 foreign Islamic State wives
Security official says 509 women and 813 children to be deported after being moved from camp run by international aid agencies

Iraq moved 500 wives of Islamic State group militants to a detention centre in preparation to deport them after they were captured along with 800 children, a councillor said Monday.

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A government official said about 300 of them were Turkish.

"They are foreigners who entered the country illegally," a minister told AFP.

"Legal measures must be taken against them because, when they were detained, they were in an area controlled by terrorists."

The Norwegian Refugee Council said they group were mostly from Turkey, Azerbaijan, Russia and Tajikistan.

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