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Let's looks at the Daesh detainee situation by resetting it to a chaotic US in which the government has collapsed. Suppose we are fighting to defend our own area against a "christian state"/neo-Confederate alliance that is killing all of our people they can catch. Now let's say we defeat a bunch of them in battle, and they choose to surrender rather than fight to the death. We now are stuck with them.

We can do any of several things:

1: We can disarm and release them (as Fidel did in the Cuban revolution), hoping they don't come back. That works well with conscript soldiers, who in Cuba soon surrendered in droves and became the insurgency's primary source of weapons. It does NOT work with ideologically-driven terrorists or enemy officers. This method also gives the best possible propaganda. Do expect to have to fight some of them multiple times, but so long as you are NOT up against a whole army of motivated, ideological opponents can be made to work

2: Opposite extreme: we can execute them all. We guarantee they don't return to the battlefield, and in the case of Daesh that's what happens if your surrender to them. Unknown if we would face this from Christian State here. If we do this, the world howls as we commit a war crime and no doubt catch up conscripts, family members of fighters, and even the occasional tourist caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Look at who the US put in GITMO and how some of them were sold to the US by bounty hunters, in some cases over nothing more than local beefs.

3: We can detain them until the end of the war, hoping the war stays over when they are released. This can be a real problem in an endless war, and if the tides of battle sweep over the detention camps we have to fight them a second time. This method is currently the global standard for dealing with soldiers who surrender. Remember, those who would rather be executed than imprisoned always have the option to fight to the death on the battlefield, thus screening out of the population of POW's those most severely harmed by imprisonment. You see this too in every war.