(AFP) The United States called on European nations on Thursday to repatriate and put on trial their citizens who went to fight for the Islamic State group in Syria.
The appeal, which has been made previously and fallen on deaf ears, came as the US Justice Department announced that a 23-year-old Texas man has been indicted in Dallas after traveling to Syria to join IS.
“We all have an obligation to keep them from ever returning to the battlefield,” Ambassador Nathan Sales, the State Department coordinator for counterterrorism, said of captured IS fighters.
“The most effective way to do that is for countries of origin to take back their citizens and prosecute them for crimes they have committed,” Sales told reporters.
