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Strain of Islamic State Prisoners, Families Gnaws at Key Alliances

Jeff Seldin

   WASHINGTON - The struggle to make a future for thousands of captured
   Islamic State fighters and their families currently in makeshift
   prisons and overcrowded displaced persons camps across northeastern
   Syria may be starting to erode key partnerships in the fight against
   the terror group.

   Most of the burden for guarding and caring for these volatile
   populations has fallen to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces. But
   SDF officials say they are increasingly frustrated over what they
   perceive as Washington's unwillingness to intervene and stop Turkey,
   also a member of the anti-IS coalition, from actively breaching
   security at the camps.

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