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France increases pressure on Iraq not to execute IS convicts

An Iraqi soldier in front of a painted Islamic State flag in Tikrit, northern Iraq, in April 2015. In recent months, Iraq has taken custody of thousands of jihadists, including foreigners, captured in neighbouring Syria by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces during the battle to destroy the IS 'caliphate'. – EPA pic, May 28, 2019.

FRANCE said today it was stepping up efforts to stop Iraq executing four French citizens convicted of fighting alongside the Islamic State group. An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced three French nationals to death for joining the Islamic State group, the first IS members from France to be sentenced to capital punishment.

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