(Sky News) British Islamic State detainees will be brought back from Syria if they can be prosecuted in the UK and there is no better place to try their case, the national security adviser has said.
Sir Mark Sedwill’s comments are the clearest signal yet that a number of captured fighters, held by Kurdish-led forces in detention camps, could be repatriated.
He was responding to a question about foreign fighters at an international conference in Bahrain on Saturday.
Sir Mark, who also holds the post of cabinet secretary, said: “We want those who are captured dealt with through the justice system and they have to be dealt with through the justice system in the most appropriate place possible.”
