Austria Tells Terrorists Looking to Return: You’re on Your Own

Austria Tells Terrorists Looking to Return: You’re on Your Own
Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz addresses the media in Vienna, Austria March 6, 2019. Leonhard Foeger/Reuters
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VIENNA—Austria said on March 6 it would not help repatriate any citizens who fought for ISIS and other terrorist groups, as countries across the West wrestle with how to deal with returning terrorists.

Hundreds of people are believed to have left Europe to fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq. With ISIS down to its last shred of territory, several have asked to come home.