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- Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council sentenced six French nationals to life and a seventh to 15 years for IS membership.
- They were among 47 French suspects moved from northeast Syria to Iraq under a U.S.–Iraqi plan last year.
- Lawyer Abbas al-Maliki said the group will appeal the verdict to Iraq’s Court of Cassation.
- The United States announced in January it began moving IS detainees to Iraq after Kurdish forces lost control.