Trump's adviser reveals why Europe insists on transferring ISIS to Iraq

Shafaq News/ Gabriel Souma, the member of President Donald Trump's advisory council, revealed on Tuesday the fact that there is US pressure on Iraq to receive ISIS members and their families from the Syrian Democratic Forces.

"The information, which talked about the presence of US pressure on Iraq to receive ISIS and their families from the Syrian Democratic Forces, is incorrect," Soma told Shafaq News. "America does not want that thing at all."

He pointed out that "there are European countries that want to get rid of ISIS elements by handing them over to Iraq for the purpose of execution, Iraq is still working with that punishment, it is an easy way to get rid of ISIS European members”.

"The United States wants to send these ISIS to their countries and trial them there not to be send them to Iraq," the adviser added.

European countries are trying to speed up a plan to remove thousands of foreign ISIS militants from camps held in Syria and transport them to Iraq after a new fighting that involved the risk of escaping or returning to their countries.

Europeans represent fifth ISIS fighters in Syria, about 10,000 held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is under heavy attack from Turkish troops.

If the SDF sends guards of the detention places to the front lines, there is a risk that detainees would flee.

European countries do not want to prosecute their nationals on their territory for fear of provoking public anger and that their judicial systems find it difficult to gather evidence as well as the risk of renewed militant attacks there.