"As ISIS fighters and their families gather in makeshift camps in eastern Syria, the international community is grappling with the dilemma of what to do with 850 men and a few thousand women accused of loyalty to a group responsible for genocide and war crimes. Western countries have adopted different approaches but none appear willing to take their own radicalised nationals home. Hans-Jakob Schindler, Senior Director at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and special adviser to Unitad, said the investigative team in Baghdad could be used by Western countries to hand down a sentence to their nationals on home turf in a way that is fair, effective and that minimises the risk of losing tracks of their whereabouts. 'If you have an individual who comes back and you cannot prove that individual joined ISIS, there is someone [from Unitad] in Iraq right now who will collect the evidence in a manner that is compatible and admissible with European courts – all you need to do is ask,' he said. Mr Schindler said that Western countries 'have the tools to manage the risk” of taking their nationals back.'"