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PERSPECTIVES | Former Islamic State fighters and brides want to come back to their Western native countries, but those countries aren't so eager to let them back. Should they reconsider and let them re-enter? Former Islamic State bride Tania Joya discusses with host Tracy Alexander.

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Germany vowed Monday to prosecute German IS fighters but warned that it would be 'extremely difficult' to organize the repatriation of European nationals from Syria, after US President Donald Trump called on allies to take back alleged jihadists.

The UK also seemed to rebuff Trump's claims, suggesting that IS fighters should first go through a legal process before returning home.

In Belgium, Justice Minister Koen Geens called for a 'European solution' on Sunday, calling for 'calm reflection and looking at what would be the least security risks'.

After initial reluctance, Paris appeared to be most amenable to consider the return of its nationals.Syria's US-backed Kurdish forces, which are battling Islamic State group jihadists in their last redoubt in eastern Syria, hold hundreds of suspected foreign IS fighters and the calls for their reluctant home countries to take them back have grown in urgency.

'We must be able to ensure that prosecution is possible,' Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen told Bild daily.

Underlining the difficulties however of putting the ex-fighters on trial, the minister noted that there is 'no government in Syria with which we have a sensible relationship'.

President Bashar 'Assad cannot be our counterpart, the Syrian-democratic forces are not a unity government,' she added, stressing that proof and witness statements needed to be secured in Syria if the militants are to be put on trial.

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said separately that a return could only be possible if 'we can guarantee that these people can be immediately sent here to appear in court and that they will be detained'.

For this, 'we need judicial information, and this is not yet the case,' Maas told ARD television late Sunday. Under such conditions a repatriation would be 'extremely difficult to achieve'.

Berlin wants to 'consult with France and Britain... over how to proceed,' he said.

The subject is to be raised on Monday at a meeting of European foreign ministers called to discuss among other issues 'the situation in Syria, in particular the recent developments on the ground,' according to an agenda for the talks.

Trump on Sunday called on his European allies to take back alleged jihadists captured in Syria.

'The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other European allies to take back over 800 ISIS fighters that we captured in Syria and put them on trial,' Trump said in a tweet, using another acronym for IS.

But Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said the fighters should be put on trial in places where they committed their crimes.

'Foreign fighters should be brought to justice in accordance with due legal process in the most appropriate jurisdiction,' Downing Street said.

'Where possible, this should be in the region where the crimes had been committed.'

The spokesman added that London continued 'to work closely with our international partners on this'.

IS imposed a self-declared caliphate across parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq from 2014, but has since lost all of it except a tiny patch of less than half a square kilometer near the Iraqi border.

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