Trump warns Europe he will free ISIS fighters if allies won’t prosecute them

By artappraiser on Sun, 02/17/2019 - 11:43am |

Stars & Stripes - Trump Warns Europe He Will Free ISIS Fighters If Allies Won’t Prosecute Them - "Trump threatened to release hundreds of Islamic State fighters being held in Syria if allies in Europe don’t agree to take custody of the militants." https://t.co/7SJiGbgMOw
— Small Wars Journal (@smallwars) February 17, 2019

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https://www.stripes.com/trump-warns-europe-he-will-free-isis-fighters-if-allies-won-t-prosecute-them-1.569045

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A man who narrated brutal Islamic State videos in English has come out of the shadows. He's Canadian and in custody. "I don’t regret it," he said. https://t.co/42L2mMrcSv
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 17, 2019

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/17/2019 - 12:16pm

Chess game being played:

AFP - Assad Warns Syria's Kurds That US Will Not Protect Them - "The US is set to pull out its soldiers from Syria after allied Kurdish-led forces capture the Islamic State group's last holdout in the war-torn country." https://t.co/PKe7nLC7l9 pic.twitter.com/5cnYEIyiza
— Small Wars Journal (@smallwars) February 17, 2019

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/17/2019 - 12:58pm

Assad, for his part, warns Kurds: “We say to those groups who are betting on the Americans, the Americans will not protect you,” he said without naming them. “The Americans will put you in their pockets so you can be tools in the barter, and they have started with (it).”
— Joshua Landis (@joshua_landis) February 17, 2019

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/17/2019 - 8:18pm

Filed from Al-Hol, Syria @ WashingtonPost.com, Feb. 18, 4:29PM:

Food shortages, airstrikes, fratricide: Chaos and desperation rule the final corner of ISIS’s rotting ‘caliphate’

As U.S.-backed forces surround the last square mile of Islamic State territory, people who have escaped described a miserable scrabble for survival in the last days of the statelet.

By Louisa Loveluck

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Trump warns Europe he will free ISIS fighters if allies won’t prosecute them

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