Bolton: Washington will continue to pressure on the Europeans to regain their Da’esh militias from Syria

ARK News: John Bolton, the national security adviser at the White House said that the United States would continue to press its European allies to accept their fellow citizens who were fighting with the "Da’esh" of detainees held by Syria Democratic Forces in Syria.

He said, in an interview with CBS television, on Sunday: “The case between 800 and 1,000 of Da’esh militias who were detained by Kurdish militants in the north-eastern of Syria is “a painful thing”.”

He pointed to a tweet of President Donald Trump last month, that Britain, France, Germany, and other European countries must accept their Da’esh militias, or “we will be forced to release them”.

When Bolton was asked, in the "Face the Nation" program, if the US government would bring those Da’esh militias to trial if their countries did not return them and said: "This is a possibility, but we are not eager to take that responsibility simply. We believe that others are also responsible, and that is the approach we are taking. "

Bolton avoided answering a question about the possible transfer of those Da’esh militias to the US military base at Guantanamo. The Washington Post reported on Monday that senior Pentagon officials, along with some Republican Senators and President Trump himself, "are talking about the possibility of transferring some high-value foreign fighters to Guantanamo prison, which has not received any new prisoners since 2008”.

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