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Over 40 Russian Women, Children to Return From Syria, Iraq in Coming Days

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VLADIVOSTOK (Sputnik) – Over 40 Russian women and children are expected to return from territories previously controlled by the Daesh terrorist group (banned in Russia) in Iraq and Syria in the coming days, leader of Russia's Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov said Sunday.

"Over 40 women and children are expected to arrive Moscow in the coming days," Kadyrov said in an interview with the NTV broadcaster.

The Chechen leader added that he had received pleas for help from women with children, who had been left in Afghanistan by their husbands. They were transferred to Afghanistan after Daesh started losing ground in Syria and Iraq.

READ MORE: Chechen Leader Kadyrov Details Operation to Rescue Russian Children From Syria

About 100 women and children have already returned to Russia from Iraq and Syria. The process was launched in August after the RT broadcaster filmed a Baghdad orphanage housing Russian children, whose parents smuggled them out of the country, joined terrorists and then gave them up after the liberation of Iraq's Mosul.

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