Retired U.S. Army Gen. Wesley Clark cautioned on Newsmax on Thursday against the potential release of tens of thousands of detained Islamic State group members and their families in Syria, warning of global security implications.

“Well, I think the big concern really, that I have is the ISIS members who’ve been detained in Syria,” the former NATO supreme allied commander told “American Agenda.”

“There’s tens of thousands of them. They’ve been in prison camps. They’re being guarded by the Syrian Democratic Front, which is a Kurdish organization supported by the United States.

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