India, Jan. 26 -- Baghdad will prosecute and try militants from the Islamic State group who are being transferred from prisons and detention camps in neighbouring Syria to Iraq under a US-brokered deal, Iraq said on Sunday.

The announcement from Iraq's highest judicial body came after a meeting of top security and political officials who discussed the ongoing transfer of some 9,000 IS detainees who have been held in Syria since the militant group's collapse there in 2019.

The need to move them came after Syria's nascent Government forces last month routed Syrian Kurdish-led fighters - once top US allies in the fight against IS - from areas of northeastern Syria they had controlled for years and where they had been guarding camps holding...