New Syria gov’t can take control of Daesh prisoners from Kurdish militias, says Turkiye FM

Turkiye’s foreign minister has voiced support for Syria’s interim government to take control of the Kurdish-run detainee camps holding former Daesh fighters in the north-east of the country, amid the new Syrian authorities’ growing calls for security centralisation. In a visit to Syrian capital Damascus over the weekend, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) leader Abu Mohammad Al-Jolani – also known as Ahmed Al-Sharaa – in the first such visit by a nation’s foreign minister for diplomatic talks with the former rebel leader. Part of those talks reportedly touched on the fate of the prisons holding the detained Daesh fighters in the north-east of Syria, who number around 10,000, as well as thousands of their […]