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Beyond Gitmo: What is the US Going to Do About the Coming Wave of ISIL Detainees?

With the Mosul battle raging and the Raqqa offensive possibly weeks away, U.S. policymakers and government attorneys will be facing a familiar kind of problem: What is going to…
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Background Reading on Umm Sayyaf’s Transfer to Kurdish Authorities

The Pentagon yesterday announced that it has transferred Umm Sayyaf, the US’s first detainee in the campaign against ISIL, to the Interior Ministry of Iraqi Kurdistan where…
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The US Must Ensure Umm Sayyaf Is Not Subjected to Human Rights Abuses

Umm Sayyaf, the wife of a suspected high-ranking ISIL member, is back in the news at The Daily Beast. US special operations forces captured Sayyaf in Syria in May and brought her…
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What Rights Does International Law Afford Umm Sayyaf?

The legal machinations within the US government must have been considerable last month after an American special operations raid in Syria captured Umm Sayyaf, the wife of suspected…
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