MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : BACKGROUNDER :    Treatment of ISIS detainees in eastern Syria: New reports

The US-allied Kurds in Syria are taking a radically different approach to their ISIS prisoners. Will it work to deter people from joining the insurgency? With great photos as ever from @martinsalice and great work from @KamiranSadoun https://t.co/iIYRcvUIRB

— Liz Sly (@LizSly) August 15, 2019

In another case, one of the children taken from the West by parents to ISIS-held areas in 2014.

Thousands of children were taken from their comfortable lives in the West to live in the first modern-day caliphate. Trinidadian Sulay Su, 16, spent five years living with #ISIS. His experience was not what you’d expect (no paywall!) 1/ https://t.co/Px5uqXLlwj

— Josie Ensor (@Josiensor) August 15, 2019

“He tried to escape many times & was jailed. He remembers one British fighter ‘Abu Adam al-Britani’ for his particularly creative torture techniques. Sulay says he saw him on TV the other day, swearing to the interviewer he wasn’t a threat to UK & should be allowed back home.”