30 Russian children born to ISIS parents & kept in Iraqi jail at last get to return home

Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : 
A plane with 30 Russian children, who had been kept in a Baghdad prison together with their Islamic State (IS)-linked mothers, landed in Moscow. Some of the children are as young as three years old, reports RT news. Flying from Baghdad to Moscow were 16 girls and 14 boys, who are now undergoing medical check-ups at Moscow’s Center for Children’s Health. Twenty-four of them are from the Republic of Dagestan and three are from the Chechen Republic, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov wrote on his Telegram channel. The other three minors are from the Penza Region and from Moscow.The high-profile operation is a breakthrough in the dramatic story of the children of Russian nationals who went to Iraq and Syria to join the ranks of IS.Over 120 such children are now being kept in an Iraqi jail with their mothers and getting them out is no easy task. It took the efforts of several ministries, including the Russian Foreign Ministry and a special commission overseen by ombudsman for children’s rights, Anna Kuznetsova, to resolve the deadlock and find legal means to reunite the minors with their relatives in Russia, with the help of Iraqi authorities.