{"id":59787,"date":"2018-02-13T02:24:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T02:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/02\/13\/us-pushes-for-home-countries-to-take-back-detainees-in-syria\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:13:09","slug":"us-pushes-for-home-countries-to-take-back-detainees-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/02\/13\/us-pushes-for-home-countries-to-take-back-detainees-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"US pushes for home countries to take back detainees in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ROME \u2014 The United States is urging allied nations to help deal with the growing number of foreign fighters<\/a> that are being held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces<\/a>, saying the militants should be turned over to face justice in their home countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected to raise the issue during a meeting in Rome this week with other members of the coalition that is fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SDF is currently holding thousands of ISIS detainees, including hundreds of foreign fighters from a number of nations. The issue became more prominent in recent days, after the announcement that the SDF had captured two notorious British members of an Islamic State cell who were commonly dubbed \u201cthe Beatles\u201d<\/a> and were known for beheading hostages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. officials have said putting the two in the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility is not an option. And British leaders have suggested they don\u2019t want the two men returned to Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\t