Summary
- Syria’s U.S.-backed Kurdish-led force handed over two Islamic State militants suspected of involvement in mass killings of Iraqi soldiers in 2014 to Baghdad
- The militants were part of the Speicher massacre, where IS captured and killed approximately 1,700 Iraqi soldiers
- The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, in collaboration with the U.S.-led coalition, captured the militants in Raqqa
- Despite IS’s defeat in Iraq and Syria, sleeper cells continue to carry out deadly attacks
