(BBC) The failure to bring Britons who fought for the Islamic State group to justice in the UK is a “dereliction of responsibility,” a top US counter-terrorism official says.
Since the fall of [the] group’s last Syrian stronghold, Baghuz, the US has stepped up efforts to get foreign fighters and their families repatriated.
But it is “frustrated” with the UK’s failure to take back British fighters.
The Home Office says they should face justice wherever is “most appropriate.”
This “will often be in the region where their offences have been committed,” a spokesperson added.
Privately, however, UK officials have said they fear the legal minefield of trying some of the jihadists and are concerned that any failed prosecution might blow a hole in counter-terrorist legislation.
