Joel Rayburn appears on Radio National Breakfast to discuss the United States military’s transfer of up to 7,000 Islamic State detainees from northeastern Syria to Iraq. This transfer was a response to Syrian government forces taking control of vast areas of the country’s north, which Kurdish-led militia previously held.
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A monument to the historic battle of Guningtou, which took place in 1949, on February 3, 2021, in Kinmen, Taiwan. (Getty Images)