In Syria there is a risk of an uncontrolled return of IS fighters who are currently still in prison. Future US President Donald Trump could withdraw US troops from the end of January. They monitor Kurdish detention centers in Syria.
There are currently approximately 9,000 fighters in Syrian prisons under US control, including 2,000 from abroad. About 25 of them are from Germany, says Guido Steinberg of the Berlin Science and Politics Foundation (SWP). “There are quite a few.”
With the events of recent days in Damascus and Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential elections in early November, the danger that the fighters will be released has “tremendously increased”, Steinberg said. “The foreign fighters should have been returned to their home countries years ago and brought to justice.”
The US government and the Kurds have also repeatedly demanded this. However, the last two German governments “tried to wait out the problem.” It could soon be too late for a controlled repatriation. Some terrorists could return to Germany.
“The danger that the situation will become more uncertain next year and that terrorists will be released from prison is very real,” Steinberg emphasized. As reported, the Islamist group Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allied militias launched a major offensive in Syria on November 27. On Sunday they took the capital Damascus and overthrew Assad, who had been in power for decades. He went abroad.
Source: Krone
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