Kurds hand over IS member to Sudanese diplomat
Kurdish authorities in north-eastern Syria handed over a Sudanese woman accused of being member of Islamic state (IS) to a Sudanese diplomat on Thursday.
The diplomat reportedly travelled from Damascus to Qamishli where medical doctor Nada Sami Saad was handed over to him, together with her one-month-old baby.
According to a Kurdish official they “decided to hand her over to her country’s embassy” on the request of Khartoum. She was accused of being a member of IS and detained in January.
Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) however told the Sudanese Media Center on Friday that they freed the woman and her baby in Syria, and expected her return to her family soon.
In 2015, groups of Sudanese students and university graduates left their country to join the ranks of IS in Syria.
Images of eight Sudanese medical students who left Khartoum to join IS in March 2015 (The Guardian)
Kurdish authorities in north-eastern Syria handed over a Sudanese woman accused of being member of Islamic state (IS) to a Sudanese diplomat on Thursday.
The diplomat reportedly travelled from Damascus to Qamishli where medical doctor Nada Sami Saad was handed over to him, together with her one-month-old baby.
According to a Kurdish official they “decided to hand her over to her country’s embassy” on the request of Khartoum. She was accused of being a member of IS and detained in January.
Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) however told the Sudanese Media Center on Friday that they freed the woman and her baby in Syria, and expected her return to her family soon.
In 2015, groups of Sudanese students and university graduates left their country to join the ranks of IS. In December that year, the NISS announced that was in control of “all IS recruiting cells” in Sudan.
The Sudanese Minister of Guidance and Endowments reported in August 2016 that 137 Sudanese had joined IS groups in Syria, Libya, and West Africa. He said that dozens of them “had died in combat in Syria and Libya”.
In mid-2017, the Sudanese authorities repatriated a number of children of slain Sudanese IS fighters from Libya.
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