LAST BASTION - Syrian Idlib Province

"Idlib’s ‘relentless’ onslaught vs. northeastern Syria’s ‘fragile stability’" PBS NewsHour 6/14/2019

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SUMMARY:  In northwest Syria, Idlib province -- the final stronghold of opponents of the Assad regime -- is under relentless attack, and a source of tension between Syria and Turkey.  Land liberated by the U.S. and its Kurdish allies in northeast Syria [Ar Raqqah] faces a very different situation.  Nick Schifrin talks to Gayle Tzemach Lemmon of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Hassan Hassan of the Center for Global Policy.

END OF THE CALIPHATE - What About the ISIS Fighters?

"What should happen to thousands of foreign ISIS fighters?" PBS NewsHour 2/15/2019

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SUMMARY:  In Syria, U.S.-backed Kurdish forces are retaking the final territory of the Islamic State.  As the caliphate dissolves, however, what will happen to the 40,000 foreign fighters who joined the terror group’s ranks over the past few years?  Many of them have been detained, but the path for prosecuting them, and preventing them from driving an ISIS resurgence, remains unclear.  Nick Schifrin reports.