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_Published 2019-03-26. The U.S-backed Syrian fighters who drove the Islamic State from its last strongholds called Monday for an international tribunal to prosecute hundreds of foreigners rounded up in the nearly five-year campaign against the extremist group._


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## Transcript

This is not the end of the fight against ISIS, that will go on, but it will be a different kind of fight. ISIS has lost much of its capability to project terrorist power and to have a recruiting base in an area that it controls, so it's a very, very important development. Right now the focus is on Getting countries to take back their own foreign terrorist fighters. A large percent of the total that had been captured by the STF are Iraqis or Syrian. There is a process underway to get those people back to Iraq and back to their Syrian communities for deradicalization and reintegration or, in some cases, punishment.

And we �� re focused on that as our fist priority. The second priority is to pressure countries to take back their own citizens who may or may not have committed crimes under the [ UNKNOWN ]. We think that �� s vital and that �� s what we �� re focused on

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