The US-backed Syrian fighters who drove ISIS from its last strongholds are calling for an international tribunal to prosecute hundreds of foreigners rounded up in the nearly five-year campaign against the group.
The administration affiliated with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Monday that such a tribunal is needed "for justice to take its course," particularly after several countries have refused to bring home their detained nationals.
"We call on the international community to establish a special international tribunal in northeast Syria to prosecute terrorists," the SDF said in a statement.
In this way, "trials can be conducted fairly and in accordance with international law and human rights covenants and charters," it said.
The announcement came two days after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIS)'s so-called "caliphate" was declared defeated following the SDF's capture of the village Baghouz, the last territory under ISIL control.
