Feb 12, 2018

An Iraqi court on Monday sentenced a Turkish woman and a Syrian man to life in jail over ties to the Islamic State group, a judicial spokesman said.

The woman was accused of "hiding the actions of a terrorist group to which her husband belonged", Supreme Judicial Council spokesman Abdel Sattar Bayraqdar said, referring to IS.

"The court condemned another Syrian terrorist to life in prison for belonging to IS and for taking part in attacks against Iraqi soldiers," he said.

Iraq in December declared victory against IS after a years-long battle to retake large swathes of territory the jihadists had seized in 2014.

Several hundred foreigners, both men and women, are thought to have been detained in the fighting.