The US on Thursday welcomed the Iraqi government’s decision to detain ISIS (Daesh) terrorists in secure facilities inside Iraq, citing recent instability in northeast Syria.

The mission followed a jailbreak earlier this week amid an advance by Syrian government forces into parts of the country long held by U.S. partners.

British-born Islamic State fighters have been evacuated by the US military from Syria to Iraq, where they could face the death penalty.

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) initiated a new mission on Wednesday to move ISIS prisoners from northeastern Syria to Iraq.

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that Washington welcomed Iraq's initiative to detain Islamic State members in secure facilities in Iraq while also urging nations to repatriate their citizens in these facilities "to face justice.

Syrian government forces have taken full control of camp in northeast Syria housing thousands of people linked to the Islamic State group. The capture of the

Guards from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces abandoned a camp Tuesday in northeast Syria housing thousands of people linked to the Islamic State group, and the Syrian military said that allowed detainees to escape.

Syria's army on Wednesday entered the vast Al-Hol camp that houses relatives of suspected Islamic State jihadists after Kurdish forces withdrew from the site, said an AFP journalist at the