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Added on the 01/04/2016 22:46:13 - Copyright : Reuters EN
It's well known that many European's have gone to fight in Iraq and Syria, but from where do they flow and what is their fate?
Former President Barack Obama threw some geographic shade at the Trump administration in an interview with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday. Business Insider reports Obama praised President-elect Joe Biden's foreign policy picks for the incoming administration. Obama said that he was looking forward to seeing an administration where people 'know where countries are.' In June 2017, President Donald Trump reportedly mispronounced Nepal and Bhutan as "Nipple" and "Button." When looking at a map, the leader of the free world had to be told where the countries were located.
Nathan Sales, the US State Department counterterrorism coordinator, says it "would be irresponsible for any country to expect Iraq" to prosecute foreign fighters instead of repatriating them to their countries of origin. SOUNDBITE
The trial of two "returning foreign fighters", alleged to have fought in Raqqa, Syria and Mosul, Iraq in 2015 and 2016, opens on Monday in Paris. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses his eighth and final Tribal Nations Conference at the White House, says "I hope I've set a direction that others will follow." Rough Cut (no reporter narration).