VICE News: An Interview with Two Recently Captured ISIS Prisoners
The world wants to wash its hands of the people who have escaped the Islamic State.
When I sit down with ISIS members Lukas Glass and Alexander Bekmirzaev, three weeks have passed since their capture by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), stumbling through minefields out of the tiny pocket which is all that’s left of the Islamic State.
VICE sits down with Lukas and Alexander in a military base in the city of Hasekah, part of the Autonomous Administration of North-Eastern Syria – more commonly known as Rojava. Since their historic resistance against an ISIS siege in the city of Kobane back in 2014, the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and Women's Protection Units (YPJ) forces have joined up with Arab, Christian and Turkmen forces to form the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the armed wing of the democratic, women-led administration.
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