A number of Moroccan women and their children may be handed down to the Iraqi authorities for being members of ISIS. In a statement issued Tuesday, the Northern Observatory for Human Rights urged the government to repatriate these nationals.
Iraq’s embassy in Morocco was handed a verbal note by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation after an Iraqi festival screened a documentary on Western Sahara.
A Moroccan human rights group has accused a US-backed Kurdish armed group, operating in Syria, of sending Moroccan women married to ISIS fighters to areas controlled by the terrorist organization.