The Arab League will not agree to have foreign fighters of the Islamic State terror group (IS, banned in Russia) tried and jailed in the region, a diplomatic source in Brussels told Sputnik
BRUSSELS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 25th February, 2019) The Arab League will not agree to have foreign fighters of the Islamic State terror group (IS, banned in Russia) tried and jailed in the region, a diplomatic source in Brussels told Sputnik.Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel floated the idea on the margins of the EU-Arab League summit in Sharm El-Sheikh this afternoon, according to the source.
"Information coming from Sharm El-Sheikh suggests that Arab League countries do not support the proposal to set up a special international court in the region to try IS foreign fighters," the source said.
Belgium's security council insists that IS fighters caught in Syria and Iraq should also serve out their sentences in middle Eastern prisons.
US President Donald Trump asked the United Kingdom, France, Germany and other EU allies to take back over 800 IS fighters captured in Syria and put them on trial. He warned the alternative would be to unleash them on Europe, which is where they are expected to go.
