IS suspects interrogated

Inside a heavily guarded detention facility in Baghdad, men from scores of different countries and nationalities were brought one after another into interrogation rooms and questioned by Iraqi officers. The prisoners are suspected members of the militant Islamic State group recently transferred from Syria to Iraq at the request of Baghdad — a move welcomed by the US—led coalition that had for years fought against IS. Over a period of several weeks, the US military escorted more than 5,000 IS detainees from 60 different nationalities from prisons in northeastern Syria. vThe transfers have helped calm fears that the fighting in Syria would allow the IS prisoners to flee from detention camps there and join militant sleeper cells that even to this day are able to stage attacks in both Iraq and Syria.