{"id":41274,"date":"2019-10-21T02:22:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T02:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41274"},"modified":"2019-10-21T02:22:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T02:22:46","slug":"egypt-to-press-for-outside-mediator-in-ethiopia-dam-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41274","title":{"rendered":"Egypt to press for outside mediator in Ethiopia dam dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"60\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\nPARIS: The refusal of the French government to take back Daesh militants from Syria could fuel a new militant recruitment drive in France, threatening public safety, a leading anti-terrorism investigator has told AFP.<br \/>David De Pas, coordinator of France\u2019s 12 anti-terrorism examining magistrates, said it would be \u201cbetter to know that these people are in the care of the judiciary\u201d in France \u201cthan let them roam free.\u201d<br \/>Turkey\u2019s offensive against Kurdish militia in northeast Syria has sparked fears that some of the 12,000 militants, including thousands of foreigners, being held in Syrian Kurdish prisons could escape.<br \/>Officials in Paris say 60 to 70 French fighters are among those held, with around 200 adults, including militants\u2019 wives, being held in total, along with some 300 children.<\/p>\n<div class=\"injected-block block-wrapper block-custom-bg padding-1 bottom-spacer--m\">\n<h4>\n<strong><span class=\"chars-style\">SPEEDREAD<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<div class=\"block-content\" readability=\"32.5\">\n<div class=\"with-separator\" readability=\"10\">\n<p>\nFrance has refused to allow the adults return home, saying they must face local justice. So far Paris has only taken back a handful of children, mostly orphans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\nFrance has refused to allow the adults return home, saying they must face local justice. So far Paris has only taken back a handful of children, mostly orphans.<br \/>This week, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian traveled to Iraq to try convince Baghdad to take in and try French militants being held in northern Syria. On Friday, in a rare interview, De Pas argued that instability in the region and the \u201cporous nature\u201d of the Syrian Kurdish prison camps risked triggering \u201cuncontrolled migration of jihadists to Europe, with the risk of attacks by very ideological people.\u201d<br \/>The Turkish offensive, which has detracted the Kurds\u2019 attention from fighting Daesh, could also facilitate the \u201cre-emergence of battle-hardened, determined terrorist groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: The refusal of the French government to take back Daesh militants from Syria could fuel a new militant recruitment drive in France, threatening public safety, a leading anti-terrorism investigator has told AFP.David De Pas, coordinator of France\u2019s 12 anti-terrorism examining magistrates, said it would be \u201cbetter to know that these people are in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}