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Sins Of The Fathers: Children Of IS Left To Rot In Syria Camp

Ali is 12 and has survived things no child should see, spending half his life in what amounts to a prison camp for jihadist families in an arid corner of northeastern Syria.

International Business Times

UN expert slams Syria detention of minors over parents’ ISIL ties

Visit to northeastern Syria by UN rapporteur finds ‘cradle-to-grave detention’ of children violates international law.

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Al-Hol Administrator to Asharq Al-Awsat: Dismantling the Most Dangerous Camp in the World Needs Years

Located near the Syrian-Iraqi border and east of Syria’s Al-Hasakah governorate, Al-Hol is the largest camp for displaced people who fled after Kurdish-led forces backed by a US-led coalition dislodged ISIS fighters from their last scrap of territory in Syria in 2019. Al-Hol is overpopulated with thousands of residents, including…

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Sick Brit stuck in Syria camp as brother pleads for her to be allowed back to UK

A British man has spoken to the press for the first time about his family's pleas to repatriate his sister and nephew back to the UK from a detention camp in Syria

Daily Mirror

Former IS families face neighbors' hatred returning home

Some women who were once affiliated with the Islamic State group have gone home to the Syrian city of Raqqa, but they are struggling to be accepted with their children in their former communities

The Independent UK

Children ‘Trapped’ in Syria Camps at Risk, Warns Aid Group

About 7,000 children of suspected foreign extremists housed in overcrowded detention camps in northeast Syria are at risk of attack and must be repatriated, an aid organization warned Wednesday. Since the ISIS group's 2019 territorial defeat in Syria, around 56,000 relatives of defeated extremists have been detained in the Kurdish-controlled…

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Children 'trapped' in Syria camps at risk: aid group

Beirut (AFP) - About 7,000 children of suspected foreign jihadists housed in overcrowded detention camps in northeast Syria are at risk of attack and must be repatriated, an aid organisation warned Wednesday.

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Bodies of 2 girls found in Syria camp housing IS families

A Syrian opposition war monitor and a local officials say the beheaded bodies of two Egyptian girls were found in a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to the Islamic State group

The Independent UK

‘Rampant violence’ in Syrian camp for ISIL-linked detainees: MSF

Al-Hol camp in northern Syria holds displaced refugees and families of ISIL (ISIS) fighters.

Al Jazeera

Children living in 'open air prison' at Syria's Al-Hol camp: MSF

Beirut (AFP) - Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Monday deplored the fate of thousands of children living in "a giant open air prison" at Syria's notorious Al-Hol camp.

AFP

Group Warns of Rampant Violence in Syria Camp of ISIS Families

A sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to the ISIS group is witnessing pervasive violence, exploitation and lawlessness, an international aids group said Monday. Doctors Without Borders also said that countries with citizens held in the detention center of al-Hol in Syria’s…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Group warns of rampant violence in Syria camp of IS families

An international aid group is warning that a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria that houses tens of thousands of women and children linked to the extremist Islamic State group is witnessing pervasive violence, exploitation and lawless

The Independent UK

Hundreds linked to IS transfered from Syria to Iraq

Beirut (AFP) - Syria's autonomous Kurdish region has transferred over 600 relatives of suspected jihadists detained at the notorious Al-Hol camp to Iraq, a war monitor and a Kurdish security source said Tuesday.

AFP

UN says Finland violated child rights in Syria camps

The UN committee issues findings after considering a case filed on behalf of six Finnish children held at al-Hol camp.

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Australia to launch rescue mission for women and children trapped in Syrian detention camps

Exclusive: More than 20 Australian women and more than 40 children related to Islamic State combatants held in al-Hawl And Roj camps

Asharq Al-Awsat

Syrian Kurdish Forces Move to Halt ‘Brutal Torture’ at al-Hol Camp

US-backed Syrian Kurdish security forces have launched a new operation targeting ISIS sleeper cells in a large northeastern detention camp where violence has reached record levels. At least 44 people including 14 women have been killed this year in the al-Hol camp, which holds internal refugees and families of suspected…

Reuters

U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces move to halt 'brutal torture' at IS camp

U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish security forces have launched a new operation targeting Islamic State sleeper cells in a large northeastern detention camp where violence has reached record levels.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Hundreds Linked to ISIS Transferred From Syria to Iraq

Syria's autonomous Kurdish region transferred to the Iraqi government more than 600 relatives of ISIS group members who were detained at the notorious Al-Hol camp, a monitor said Friday. It is the fourth operation of its kind this year from the camp, which lies less than 10 kilometers (six miles)…

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UN: Over 100 Murders in Syria’s al-Hol Camp Since Jan 2021

More than 100 people, including many women, have been murdered in a Syrian camp in just 18 months, the UN said Tuesday, demanding countries repatriate their citizens. The Al-Hol camp is increasingly unsafe and the child detainees are being condemned to a life with no future, said Imran Riza, the…

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Iraq Official Warns of Extremist Threat from Syria Camp

The Al-Hol camp for displaced people in Syria is an extremist threat and should be dismantled, a senior Iraqi security official said on Saturday. Al-Hol, in the Kurdish-controlled northeast, is Syria's largest camp for displaced people.

AFP

Iraq official warns of jihadist threat from Syria camp

Baghdad (AFP) - The Al-Hol camp for displaced people in Syria is a jihadist threat and should be dismantled, a senior Iraqi security official said on Saturday.

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