We and our partners do the following data processing based on your consent: store and/or access information on a device, personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development Iraqi court sentences six French nationals to life for IS group membership Six French men were sentenced to life in prison by an Iraqi court on Tuesday for membership of the Islamic State (IS) group, according to a source.They are among 47 French IS group suspects transferred from detention facilities in Syria to Iraq last year under an arrangement coordinated by US forces and Iraqi authorities. File photo of an Iraqi court building in Baghdad taken October 5, 2026. © Ahmed Saad, An Iraqi court on Tuesday sentenced six French nationals to life in prison and a seventh to 15 years after convicting them of membership of theIslamic State (IS) group, a witness inside the courtroom said. The men were among 47 French IS group suspects transferred from detention facilities in northeast Syria to Iraq last year under a broader relocation arrangement coordinated by US forces and Iraqi authorities.
Read moreFrench jihadist who claimed 2016 Nice attack to be tried in Iraq, source says The presiding judge said the sentences were imposed under Iraq's counterterrorism law for joining the IS group and spreading fear. He added that the court had opted for life imprisonment rather than the death penalty because the defendants were young. A seventh French national, aged 23, was given a 15-year sentence, according to the witness.
Abbas al-Maliki, one of the lawyers for the defendants, said the group would appeal the sentence in the Court of Cassation. The IS group seized large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014 before being driven from its self-declared caliphate by a US-led coalition and local forces in 2019. Many of the group's militants were detained, although remnants of the jihadist organisation continue to operate. The US announced in January that it had begun transferring IS group detainees from Syria to Iraq amid concerns about the security of detention facilities in northeast Syria after Kurdish-led forces lost control of parts of the region.
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