What to do with former Isis fighters is a problem that isn’t going away

Nations must step up and do more to remedy the issue even if the news spotlight has shifted elsewhere

States leaving nationals in literal or legal limbo land is not the answer (AFP)

Picture the image: today a US citizen, an alleged Isis fighter, was left marooned in the heavily militarised no man’s land between Turkey and Greece, unable to move beyond the gap between the two border post because he had no papers.

Turkey was so determined to offload some of the hundreds of foreign nationals it has captured during the campaign against Isis, it had tried to expel the unnamed man in the direction of Greece.

But since the fighter had no proper papers, Athens rejected him. And so he remained stuck. It is unclear if he is still there waiting at the gates.