Sudan’s Repatriation of Daesh/ISIS Linked Nationals From Syria Continues

The government of the republic of Sudan has returned about 5 of its nationals who had joined the Daesh/Islamic State In Syria (ISIS) terrorist group.

According to the Foreign Ministry’s Statement, two women and three children were retrieved.

“The five are the first group of nationals held in northern Syria,” the statement said, without giving any exact number of Sudanese held in Syria for joining the terrorist group.

It is worth noting that way back in April 2018, Sudan repatriated 10 nationals who had joined the Daesh/ISIS group in neighboring Libya, and up-to-date, the search for their nationals has never ceased.

However, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is a terrorist organization that has exploited the conflict in Syria and sectarian tensions in Iraq to entrench itself in both countries.

Meanwhile, ISIS’s stated goal is to solidify and expand its control of territory once ruled by early Muslim caliphs and to govern through the implementation of its strict interpretation of sharia. This also possibly means that the abductions of Sudanese nationals are not about to end.