🇺🇸 Trump demands Europe take hundreds of ISIL fighters | Al Jazeera English

US President Donald Trump has demanded that Europe take in hundreds of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) fighters captured in Syria, threatening that the United States would otherwise be forced to release them.

"The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other European allies to take back over 800 ISIS fighters that we captured in Syria and put them on trial," the president wrote in a flurry of social media posts on Saturday.

"The caliphate is ready to fall. The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them.

"The US does not want to watch as these ISIS fighters permeate Europe, which is where they are expected to go.

Thom Brooks, the dean and professor of Law and Government at the University of Durham Law School, talks to Al Jazeera about Trump's controversial demand.

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