Originally Posted by tater

I agree with treating them like POWs.

We catch them, then lock them up until their Islamist group unconditionally surrenders to us or ceases to exist. Since they don't wear uniforms, we assign them to a force (what choice do we have?).

We held German POWs until the war was over, for example. Had the war been mostly over, but a fraction of german forces holed up in the Alps—they'd have stayed POWs until that last bastion fell.

So asking for POW treatment is asking for lifetime jail for all of them. I'm fine with that.

Oh, and since we're treating them like "good" enemy forces, if they broke rules of war before they were caught (intentionally mixing with civilians, operating out of uniform, etc), before they are released they virtually all get tried with war crimes. Any that survive that gauntlet of firing squads gets released.