Iraq holding 1,400 foreign 'ISIL wives, children'

Iraqi authorities are holding about 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected ISIL fighters in a camp after government forces expelled the group from one of its last remaining strongholds in Iraq, security and aid officials said.

Many of them say they are from Russia, Turkey and Central Asia, but there are also some from European countries, the officials said. They have mostly arrived at the camp south of Mosul since August 30.

An Iraqi intelligence officer said they were in the process of verifying the nationalities of the wives and children with their home countries since many of the women no longer had their original documents. Thousands of foreigners have been fighting for ISIL in Iraq and Syria.

UCJ, UNILORIN.