(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate confirmed the arrest of a Canadian army veteran in Iraq, who fought with Kurdish forces in northern Syria.
Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Rachna Mishra said in a statement to the Ottawa Citizen newspaper "We are aware of the arrest of a Canadian citizen in Iraq,". She added"Canadian consular officials at the embassy of Canada in Amman, Jordan, are providing consular assistance as required." The embassy in Amman provides consular services to Canadians in Iraq, the newspaper said.
Mishra noted the Department could not release further information, including exactly how the embassy was responding, for privacy reasons.
The newspaper said that the Canadian was a volunteer with the People's Protection Units, or YPG, the Syrian Kurdish militia battling the Daesh terrorist group and was taken into custody in northern Iraq late last month along with a Swedish, two Spaniards and two Americans.
Western volunteer fighters returning from Syria have increasingly faced the prospect of detention in the autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, which is controlled by President Masoud Barzani's Kurdish Democratic Party, it added.
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