Josh Baker

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citizens.

And there's been so much unrest and turmoil, as I'm sure you're familiar with, around issues of migration.

And it's really striking to hear you say that he's putting pressure on other countries to repatriate some of these people in the ISIS prison camps.

Certainly within his first time, it was a major issue for him in some respects when it came to maintaining troops in Syria.

He did not want to continue to have troops in Syria.

At one point, he pulled a number of them out.

And while these camps exist, there is some need for the US to have a military presence there.

Josh, you mentioned that while these camps are operating, there's a need for a U.S.

military presence.

And earlier you spoke about pro-ISIS supporters almost kind of running amok in some of these camps.

Can you just talk me through who runs these camps and why the United States is involved?

Yeah, so let me back up for a minute because I'm conscious that it can be a very tangled picture if you're new to the subject.

So when ISIS's caliphate emerged, Syria was in a state of civil war.

It was governed by the dictator Bashar al-Assad and...

It wasn't until 2019 that that so-called ISIS caliphate was defeated.

And the way that that was done was the US government basically didn't want to put a lot of boots on the ground, neither did the Brits themselves.

So they empowered a sort of militia, if you will.

And that militia known as the Syrian Democratic Forces was made up of predominantly Kurds, but also Arabs as well.

And they were very much our boots on the ground in the fight against ISIS.

They defeated the caliphate for us with assistance from us, but they defeated the caliphate for us.

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