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Anti-ISIS coalition to weigh fate of captured foreign fighters

The international coalition fighting the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) meets in Rome Tuesday (February 13th) to discuss the fate of foreign fighters held in Syria, AFP reported.

They are among thousands of extremists captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces as ISIS fled al-Raqa following months of intense fighting last year.

At Tuesday's meeting, "we are going to speak about the future," US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told journalists as he travelled to Rome.

Those detainees include two Britons said to have carried out numerous beheadings.

The thorny issue of what to do with the hundreds of foreign fighters now detained in Syria has sparked intense debate in the West about whether such fighters should be returned to their home countries to face justice.

Pentagon official Kathy Wheelbarger, accompanying Mattis, said: "We are working with the coalition on foreign fighter detainees and generally expect those detainees to return to their country of origin for disposition."

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