US EditionSyria’s Al-Hawl Camp ‘Emptied’ of ISIS Members' Families: Report
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Thousands of women and children of foreign jihadists held captive in the al-Hol camp in Syria have reportedly left, barely two weeks after the Kurdish forces withdrew. This was reported by the AFP news agency, citing witnesses. Sources spoken to by VRT NWS were unsurprised: "We've been warning about this for some time."
al-Hol camp “empties out”, foreign families of Islamic State members leave - Enab Baladi
Sources at humanitarian organizations and eyewitnesses told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that most families of foreign members of the Islamic State group have left al-Hol camp in the eastern countryside of al-Hasakah (northeastern Syria), after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) withdrew from it in late January and it was taken over by security forces affiliated with the Syrian government. This followed the Syrian government taking control of the …
Most relatives of foreign jihadists have left al-Hol camp in north-eastern Syria, since the departure on 20 January of Kurdish troops replaced by Syrian security forces, told AFP on Thursday two humanitarian sources and witnesses.
The al-Hol camp, which housed 24,000 people in north-eastern Syria, including 6,300 foreign families of jihadists, has been emptying since Damascus took control on 21 January. Humanitarian sources confirm on Thursday 12 February that there are only 20 foreign families in the annex.
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