Josh Baker
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 8 Feb
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And America is a society that recognizes the value of military might and so on and so forth.
And I think there's a sense that the Kurds fought for us and we shouldn't abandon them amongst some Republican lawmakers and so on and so forth.
What does this actually mean for the security and the governance of the camps on the grounds?
And does it mean that ISIS has the potential to restrengthen?
In terms of the security situation around ISIS, since the fall of President Assad in December of 2024, ISIS was able to move around the country much more freely.
Before that, they'd very much been confined to certain areas.
The American special forces would go in on these targeted missions or drop bombs.
But after the fall, they started moving about the country.
And since then, there have been attacks.
And from these prisons that we're talking about, there have also been escapes.
So one of the things that America has done very recently, it's enacted a policy of going into Syria and trying to remove some of these detainees from certain facilities and bring them actually into a secret place in Iraq because they feel that moving them into Iraq is safer at this moment than leaving them inside Syria.
Josh, I feel like I now have a clear sense of the dynamic in the camps and the security situation.
But I want us to zoom out a bit to the state of ISIS more broadly outside the camps.
The United States has maintained a minimal troop presence on the ground in Syria.
And in December, there was news of an ambush on U.S.
forces.
What exactly happened there?
Yeah, at that point, very sadly, two U.S.
soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in an ISIS attack.
And Donald Trump had an extraordinarily strong response to that.
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