Mosul, Iraq

ISIS wives to be deported: Iraqi authorities abruptly relocated some 1,400 foreign wives and children of ISIS fighters this week, without notifying the aid groups that were helping them. The women—mostly from Turkey, Russia, and Central Asia—and their children had been in a refugee camp south of Mosul since Iraqi government troops recaptured the city in July. But officials put all the family members on buses this week, without their personal possessions, and drove them to a detention center north of the city. “These women and children are extremely vulnerable,” said Julie Davidson of the Norwegian Refugee Council. “Regardless of what their family members may be accused of, they have a right to protection and assistance.” Iraqi officials said the families will be deported as soon as they can be processed.