US President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized European countries he said were refusing to take back Daesh prisoners being held in war-torn Syria.
"European countries are not helping at all, even though this was very much done for their benefit," he said in a tweet. "They are refusing to take back prisoners from their specific countries. Not good!"
Trump said 1,800 prisoners were taken in the final campaign to recapture the so-called caliphate that the Daesh terror group had proclaimed in Syria.
This is not the first time he has slammed European allies over claims they are not cooperating with efforts to repatriate nationals.
But he has appeared to be reluctant to take back at least some Americans who flocked to the territories controlled by Daesh, including Hoda Muthana, 24, a Daesh bride from Alabama.
Trump's top officials have said Muthana is not a U.S. citizen, a claim rejected by her family who insists her father stopped working as a Yemeni diplomats weeks before she was born.
Unlike most others, children of diplomats who are born while their parents are working in the U.S. are not automatically granted U.S. citizenship.
