QAMISHLI (AFP) – Eight hundred Iraqi refugees returned home from northeast Syria on Thursday and hundreds more are to follow, a Syrian official in the region’s Kurdish semi-autonomous administration said. The Iraqi government has “agreed to the return of (a total of) 800 families,” the Syrian Kurdish source told AFP, adding that many of them had sought refuge in Syria after the Daesh terrorists group expanded its presence in Iraq. They had been living in villages bordering Iraq. A senior Iraqi security source said: “We have been checking their identities for security reasons for the past year.