US EditionSyria closes IS-linked Al Hol camp after emptying it
Al-Hol camp, once home to 24,000 mostly women and children related to ISIS fighters, was closed after repatriations and transfers due to security and logistical challenges.
- On Sunday, Syrian authorities closed and emptied Al-Hol camp, which housed about 24,000 people, officials said; the site had long hosted relatives of suspected Islamic State fighters.
- Last month, Syrian government forces took control of the camp after Kurdish administrators ceded territory, enabling Damascus to extend authority in the northeast.
- Earlier this week, authorities began evacuating the remaining residents to Akhtarin camp, while humanitarian teams dismantled equipment and thousands of families left for unknown destinations.
- Rights monitors and officials raised concerns about reintegration needs for women and children residents as Human Rights Watch said Tuesday roughly 5,700 transferred detainees face serious risks and Syrian security forces searched tents.
- Countries largely refused to repatriate their nationals, leaving many foreigners stranded as Syrian authorities turned back 34 Australian women and children on Feb. 16, with Australia later declining repatriation.
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Tens of thousands of tents scattered over the sand and surrounded by beaten fences mark the point in the Syrian desert, in the northeastern part of the country, where the Al Hol camp for relatives of the Islamic State (ISIS) is located, which this Monday has been completely emptied. Syrian authorities put an end to seven years of legal limbo during which tens of thousands of women and children were trapped in the custody of the Syrian Democratic…
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