A Kurdish official says IS fighters, thier wives and children, are a time bomb waiting to explode (Image: FADEL SENNA/AFP/Getty Images)
Prisons run by Western-backed troops have taken in 800 foreign jihadists, while 700 women and 1,500 children are being housed in camps for the displaced in northern Syria. As the terrorist group struggles to hold onto its last scrap of territory and the battle enters the final stages, many foreign recruits are surrendering to the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Abdulkarim Omar, co-chairman of foreign relations in the Kurdish-led region, reassured the West the ISIS fighters would not be released - but urged countries to take them back.
The women and children from suspected IS families are kept separate from civilians (Image: FADEL SENNA/AFP/Getty Images)
Mr Omar said: "It seems most of the countries have decided that they're done with them, let's leave them here, but this is a very big mistake.
He urged the terrorists’ home countries to do more to prosecute the jihadists and work to resettle their families back into society, "or else this will be a danger and a time bomb.”
Mr Omar said the numbers in the prisons and camps are growing by the dozen every day and if not removed, they could launch a deadly attacks on the Kurdish-controlled area.
The Kurds are struggling to cope with the sudden influx of IS families as the battle to take the terror group’s final territory - the village of Baghuz in northern Syria - rages on.
It is estimated there are around 20 British women and children in the camps for IS families (Image: FADEL SENNA/AFP/Getty Images)
