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ALexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, suspected of belonging to a cell of British fighters nicknamed "The Beatles", were arrested while they were trying to escape the Syrian border with Turkey.
Their fate has not yet been decided because the SDF refuses to try foreign suspects in Syria and the United Kingdom has stripped the two men of their citizenship.
"This underscores, once again, how Islamic State fighters and many foreigners with them remain operational despite the group's loss of territory," said Shiraz Maher, director of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence (ICSR). College London.
"One of the big questions and dilemmas for security agencies, after the loss of Raqqa and Mosul by the Islamic State, is: who is dead? Who survived? How many are gone and where are they now?
As the homeless get closer to the last remnants of Isil territory, a number of foreign fighters have been captured, including an Italian, in recent weeks.
Experts believe that most of those who are still in Isil territory are among the hardest of jihadists, having decided to fight to end it rather than flee.
A dozen British would still be in Syria, most fighting for jihadist groups in Idlib, the last rebel stronghold.
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