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Trump Again Threatens to Release Captured Daesh Fighters into Europe

SHAFAQNA- US President Donald Trump has threatened Europe that if Europe does not take back European Daesh members captured in Syria and Iraq, he may release them into where they came from.

“We’re holding thousands of ISIS fighters right now, and Europe has to take them,” Trump said on Wednesday.

“If Europe doesn’t take them, I’ll have no choice but to release them into the countries from which they came, which is Germany and France and other places,” Trump stated, adding, “The United States is not going to put them in Guantanamo and pay for that.”

Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Trump declared that India, Pakistan, Turkey, Russia or even Iran must shoulder the burden of fighting “terrorists” in Afghanistan, insisting it would be unfair if the United States spends another 19 years cleaning up its mess.

“All of these other countries where ISIS is around…all of these are going to have to fight,” he warned. The US would not spend “another 19 years” in what is already the longest war in its history.

It is not the first time Trump demanded Europe “take back” its nationals who went to Syria and Iraq to fight on the side of ISIS and other terrorist entities. Trump has repeatedly voiced his dismay at the EU’s reluctance to repatriate and prosecute European fighters captured in the Middle East.

In early August, Trump warned that some 2,500 jihadists captured by Washington and its allies in Syria and Iraq could soon be roaming European soil unless the EU agrees to take back expat fighters of its own accord, farsnews reported.

Thousands of people, including men, women and children from more than 50 countries, are lingering in detention camps in northeastern Syria, held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), accourding to dailystar.

The European Commission announced recently that more than 2500 persons, who had once left various European countries to join the Daesh terrorist group in Iraq or Syria, are currently unaccounted for.

According to Julian King, the European Commissioner for security, at least 5,500 foreign terrorist fighters left the continent to travel to Iraq and Syria, press tv told.

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