ISIS: How countries are dealing with returning ISIS fighters

Recently, I've been reading articles about how countries are dealing with citizens who are returning (wish to return) after fighting (being a part) of ISIS.

Here's a look at three countries:

Sweden:

From The Local:

None of the 150 Swedish citizens who have returned home after joining the terror group Islamic State have been convicted of crimes committed while abroad. While some European countries are investigating all returning foreign fighters, Sweden is not . . . In Sweden, however, suspicion of a specific crime is required in order to initiate a preliminary investigation. If there is no concrete information to work off, the police's ability to access any digital evidence, for example in returning foreign fighters’ phones, decreases drastically.

It would appear that Sweden is prevented from investigating ISIS fighters due to existing law. Sweden wishes to make changes to that law.



UK:

Shamima Begum, who left to be an ISISS bride at the age of 15, was recently found in a Syrian refugee camp by The Times UK.

CNN had this to say:

British teenager Shamima Begum, who left the UK to join ISIS in 2015 and has expressed a wish to return home, is to be stripped of her UK citizenship, her family's lawyer said Tuesday . . . UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid said last Friday that he would "not hesitate" to prevent the return of those who joined terror organizations like ISIS. "My message is clear: if you have supported terrorist organizations abroad I will not hesitate to prevent your return," he said.

US:

The US also has a similar case as the UK with ISIS bride Hoda Muthana.

Also, via CNN:

President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that he directed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to allow Muthana back into the country. Pompeo declared the same day, in a statement, that Muthana is "not a US citizen and will not be admitted into the United States. She does not have any legal basis, no valid US passport, no right to a passport, nor any visa to travel to the United States." . . . At issue in the case is the legal status of Muthana's father, a Yemeni diplomat, when she was born . . . A person born in the United States is entitled to citizenship by virtue of the 14th Amendment, often described as the right of birthright citizenship. But a child born to a diplomat still under the protections of his home country would be considered a citizen of that home country.

The UK and US are doing everything in their power to prevent ISIS members from returning. Sweden; however, due to their laws are required to take them back without even investigating them. Sweden could potentially have some issues on their hands even if they do change the law, because how many of those 150 citizens have gone off the radar?