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Red Cross Urges Fair And Lawful Treatment Of Captured ISIS Fighters

The remarks come days after a top U.S. envoy was quoted saying, "Our mission is to make sure that any foreign fighter who is here, who joined ISIS from a foreign country ... they will die here."
A picture taken on Oct. 20, 2017, shows writing about the so-called Islamic State group on a wall in the recaptured Syrian town of Mayadeen. The Red Cross is urging lawful treatment of foreign fighters who traveled to Syria to join the extremists. / STRINGER / Getty Images

The International Committee for the Red Cross is urging countries to handle captured ISIS fighters according to international legal standards, in the wake of the extremist group's loss of its so-called capital in the Syrian city of Raqqa.

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