Women and children in the largest Islamic State detention centre in Kurdish-controlled Syria are expecting to be freed in the wake of a Turkish assault on the area, according to people inside the camp. Violence at al-Hawl has ebbed and flowed since the camp became home to an unexpected influx of women and children after Isis was driven out of the remnants of its territorial “caliphate” earlier this year. Trump has also appeared preoccupied that the US would have to pick up the bill for the custody and prosecution of detained European Isis fighters, and the care of their families. He then suggested it would be fault of those governments if European Isis fighters escaped back to their homelands. The official said the reason European fighters were not being taken back by their own countries was not about cost, but about the difficulties of prosecuting them.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2019 17:38 UTC