2020年3月24日 · More than 10,000 European women and children affiliated with Islamic State fighters remain in local custody in northeastern Syria. So far, European governments have been reluctant to take large-scale action.

2022年10月24日 · Three-and-a-half years since the United States, its coalition partners, and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) overpowered the last redoubt of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), nearly 10,000 fighters remain in SDF custody in northeast Syria.

2024年4月17日 · The majority were Syrian and had been tortured to extract forced confessions. Amnesty International interviewed two people who were subjected to torture immediately after being transferred from the custody of the US-led coalition to the SDF and affiliated security forces.

The Department is placing urgent emphasis on enabling the SDF to provide for the humane and secure detention of fighters in SDF custody. Seeking to reconstitute its ranks, ISIS executed a complex attack in Hasakah in January 2022 on the largest SDF-managed facility for detained ISIS fighters in northeast Syria.

The SDF has repeatedly called on countries to repatriate their citizens in SDF custody but many are refusing to do so.5 The ongoing conflict in Syria combined with the SDF’s limited judicial infrastructure means these FTFs are likely to be detained for an indefinite period of time

Given the uncertainties and risks, few nations have formally accepted the transfer of their nationals from SDF custody. o Most of the returnees have made their own way back. Utilize the International Criminal Court (ICC) or create a new international tribunal.

After helping to defeat the Islamic State in Syria, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were put in charge of guarding Islamic State fighters -- many of them foreigners to Syria -- and...

2022年12月14日 · Outside of these camps, more than 800 children were held in SDF custody as of 2021. By the end of 2021, over a thousand children were held in Iraqi custody on terrorism charges related to their alleged affiliation with armed groups, particularly ISIS.

2019年2月1日 · The number of foreign fighters being held by the US-backed Syria Democratic Forces has surpassed 800 for the first time, according to the Pentagon. There are more than “800 foreign terrorist...

2020年1月23日 · About 4,000 captured Syrian IS fighters are thought to be in SDF custody, while the number of noncombatants — women and children and others — held in displaced-persons camps still number in the...