US-Backed Forces in Syria Defy Trump on Islamic State Fighters
By Jeff Seldin
September 26, 2019 10:33 AM
Men suspected of being an Islamic State (IS) group's fighter walk next to a member of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) as they wait to be searched after leaving the IS group's last holdout of Baghouz, Syria, Feb. 27, 2019.
U.S. efforts to have European countries immediately take back men and women who left to fight with the Islamic State terror group in Syria are meeting with unexpected resistance from U.S.-backed forces on the ground.
Officials with the political wing of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, say they will only agree to release the thousands of foreign fighters after they have been tried for their crimes in Syria.
"We want to sentence them in our area, so they don't run from punishment," Ilham Ahmed, co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council, said Wednesday in Washington during a meeting with a small group of academics and journalists. "This is what we insist on."
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Sounds like the U.S.-backed fighters are more correct.
