Foreign ISIS fighters could face Nuremberg-style trials in Iraq as Western countries refuse to allow them to return to their homelands.
The Kurdish government in Syria said if Britain and other European countries will not take back their jihadi citizens, then international tribunals similar to the ones used to convict Nazi's after the Second World War could be set up to deal with the problem.
It comes as Iraq announced a group of 13 French citizens accused of fighting for ISIS are to be tried in the country rather than face charges in their home country.
All Islamic State group militants who committed crimes against Iraq will be put on trial in that country, Iraq's president said on Monday.
The group including 13 suspected French militants have been transferred to Iraq from Syria.
Iraqi President Barham Saleh said during a two-day visit to France that the French citizens were handed over from Syria, where troops with US-led coalition forces detained them.
The 13 will be prosecuted in accordance with Iraqi laws, he said.
French president Emmanuel Macron (right) greets Iraqi President Barham Saleh before a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Monday
Women walk with their belongings near the village of Baghouz, Deir Al Zor province, Syria, on Tuesday
Civil defence forces carry an injured person on stretcher through rubble, after an air strike on location targeted by government forces, in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib, Syria, on Tuesday
The announcement by the Iraqi government comes as many Western counties try to decide what to do with its citizens returning from fighting with the so-called Islamic State as the militant group's remaining strongholds collapse.
In Britain, the authorities have been dragged into legal wrangling and soul-searching over the fate of jihadi bride, Shamima Begum, and her newborn son.
Despite begging to be allowed to return to Britain after fleeing to the so-called caliphate from Bethnal Green, east London, aged 15, she was stripped of her citizenship by Home Secretary Sajid Javid.
Donald Trump urged European countries to take back their suspected fighters and try them in their own countries, threatening that otherwise US-backed forces in Syria would release the militants.
The Kurds also want foreign nations to repatriate their citizens and jail them in their lands, but are willing to make compromises if the international community will provide the funding and security for new prisons.
Dr Abdulkarim Omar, the head of the foreign affairs commission for the Kurdish-led authority in north-east Syria, told the Telegraph: 'If Europe and the coalition countries don't want to take back their citizens, then one alternative is the establishment of an internationally sponsored tribunal like Nuremberg.'
Members of the Syrian Civil Defence - also known as 'The White Helmets' check the rubble at a building that was hit by shelling in the town of Saraqib in Syria's mostly rebel-held northern Idlib province
Women sit with their children near the village of Baghouz, Deir Al Zor province, Syria, on Tuesday
Heavy smoke rises from a building after an air strike on location targeted by government forces, in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib
Trump threatened to release some 800 fighters held by Syrian forces into Europe if Turkey begins attacking Kurdish held areas of Syria.
According to the Home Office around 900 British citizens went to Syria and Iraq to join the so-called caliphate, with around two dozen thought to be in custody in Kurdish-controlled north-east Syria.
Dr Omar told Swiss newspaper 20 Minuten: 'Everyone must be aware that these prisoners are a threat to us Kurds because of their large numbers.
'The situation in northern Syria is anything but stable, neither political nor military. Turkey threatens us. In an attack, we can guarantee nothing.
'The danger of escape of these jihadists is great, and if it comes to a confrontation with Ankara, then the ISIS fighters will again be an active threat to Europe and the West.
'We call for an international conference to discuss this issue that we Kurds can not solve on their own. The establishment of an international tribunal led by the UN would be a solution.'
The fighters, who were turned over to Iraq after being seized by Syrian Kurdish forces, 'will be judged according to Iraqi law,' Saleh told a news conference after talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.
Fighters with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stand guard as people queue at a scanning area for those fleeing from ISIS's holdout of Baghouz, during an operation to expel IS jihadists from the area
Iraqi President Barham Saleh was on a two-day visit to France with a focus on the country's security and the fight against the Islamic State group in the region
Saleh said: 'Anyone who is accused of committing crimes against Iraq, against Iraqi installations and against Iraqi personnel, we definitively are seeking them. And seeking to try them, of course.'
At a news conference with Saleh, French President Emmanuel Macron said he would not identify the French citizens nor comment on their cases.
He said it's Iraq's sovereign decision to decide whether the alleged militants should face the criminal justice system in the Mideast country.
An intelligence official said the Iraqi government has 13 French IS militants in custody after they were transferred from Syria a month ago.
An Iraqi security official confirmed the report on Monday and said the militants will be put on trial for crimes committed inside Iraq.
There were no details on their identities. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
The US has called for countries to take back and try their own nationals. France's official position states that French 'terrorist' fighters 'must be tried wherever they committed their crimes,' according to the French foreign affairs ministry.
Women and children walking in a line fleeing ISIS as jihadis are being cleared from the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor
British jihadi bride Shamima Begum with her week-old son, Jerah, in al-Hawl refugee camp for captured ISIS wives and children in Kurdish-controlled Syria
The issue of captured foreign fighters in Syria poses a major conundrum for countries whose nationals have been imprisoned in the country.
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces is holding more than 900 foreign fighters in prisons it runs in the country's north, many of them Iraqis and Europeans.
According to an Iraqi government statement issued Monday, about 280 Iraqi IS militants have been handed over by the SDF to Iraq in two successive batches last week, out of an estimated more than 500.
Also last week, a French diplomatic official and a SDF official said they were trying to verify reports that Fabien Clain, a Frenchman who is one of Europe's most-wanted members of IS, was killed in an airstrike in Syria.
Macron insisted France will keep supporting Iraq as it faces security and stability challenges while rebuilding in areas that had been controlled by IS.
Both countries also are seeking to strengthen their economic cooperation.
France remains militarily involved in Iraq through training and logistical support of Iraqi forces and intelligence missions.
A woman evacuated from the Islamic State group's stronghold of Baghouz, carrying a child as she walks toward a zone held by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
Saleh told a news conference after talks with President Macron in Paris that the 13 fighters, who were turned over to Iraq after being seized by Syrian Kurdish forces, 'will be judged according to Iraqi law'
An Iraqi government source in Baghdad said on Monday that 14 French fighters had been brought to Iraq by the US-backed forces trying to dislodge IS jihadists from their last bastion in Syria.
France has long maintained that any of its nationals caught in Syria or Iraq should be tried locally, a stance which critics say could leave them facing the death penalty, which is outlawed in France.
Macron reiterated this position Monday, saying that 'it is up to the authorities of these countries to decide, sovereignly [sic], if they will be tried there'.
'These people are entitled to benefit from our consular protection, and our diplomatic service will be mobilised,' he added.
Macron also said he would visit Iraq in the coming months, after France announced in January that it would provide one billion euros ($1.1 billion) in reconstruction funds for the war-ravaged country.
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