Also a co-director of the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project, Jacob N. Shapiro, believes that foreign IS members should be sent back and tried in thrir own countries.
What follows are his full answers to Kurdpress questions;
Is IS defeated completely as Donald Trump claims?
No, but it is certainly much less dangerous than it has been in a long time. The group still has the capacity to conduct terrorist attacks in Syria and Iraq, but it is much less capable than it has been at any point since 2012.
Syrian Kurds hold as much as 12000 IS fighters and somehow 50000 people related to this Terrorist organization. Foreign countries do not want to get them back and Kurds say they can not hold them for a long time. what is the best way to deal with them?
My view is that those whose county of origin can be established should be sent home to be tried under their own country laws. The international community should provide support for the Syrian Kurds to try the remainder under an internationally-supervised process.
Iraqi Kurds say IS is very active in the disputed areas like Kirkuk and may we see an attach like 2014 by this group. How is this serious? Would settelling differences between Kurds and Baghdad save the country from this group?
I simply do not know enough to answer this question about how active they are in disputed areas such as Kirkuk.
Kurds like Syrian Kurdish forces or YPG were very active in combating IS, how this can help Syrian Kurds to have an autonomous region?
I do not think it will in the present situation. I believe that the YPG and Arab elements of the SDF expected the United States to advocate on their behalf in a post-war settlement. The Trump unceremoniously abandoned his Kurdish allies last year and they quickly made accommodations with the Asad regime in many regions. I suspect the long-run resolution will be some kind of de facto autonomy within Syria, but no secure legal status in terms of regional autonomy.
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