French lawyers and US-based analysts were among those attending the three-day conference on the challenges still facing the region after IS’s territorial defeat, organisers said. Officials of the autonomous Kurdish administration in northeastern Syria, which is hosting the conference in the town of Amuda, were also due to take part. Now, the Kurds are struggling to cope with the thousands of alleged IS members they detained during the battle. They include around 1,000 suspected foreign fighters held in jail, and some 13,000 family members in overcrowded camps. Iraq has offered to put suspected foreign militants on trial in Baghdad in exchange for millions of dollars, officials told AFP in April.

Source: The Express Tribune July 06, 2019 11:15 UTC