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US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the Syrian government recaptured all ISIS (Daesh) prisoners who escaped after the SDF released them from detention, crediting Washington’s cooperation with Damascus, Anadolu reports. “Working with the government of Syria and the new leader of Syria, they captured all the prisoners, put them back to jail,” he told the New York Post, describing the detainees as among the most dangerous globally. “We did a good job with Syria … European prisoners were breaking and I got it stopped,” said Trump. The president defended sharing confidential exchanges with French President Emmanuel Macron and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, saying they praised his work stopping the breakout orchestrated by the terror group. NATO’s chief told the […]
