At the heart of the legal battle is an issue involving U.S. citizenship rights. The case also raises questions about how Western governments will handle the hundreds of cases of citizens who left to join Islamic State’s self-styled caliphate and were eventually captured as territory controlled by the group in Syria and Iraq dwindled from an area larger than South Carolina to less than a square mile in a remote Syrian hamlet.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 23, 2019 00:32 UTC