US EditionUN Reports Sharp Decline at Syria's Al-Hol Camp as Government Plans Relocation
After Syrian government forces took control, about 80% of al-Hol camp’s 24,000 residents fled, including 6,300 from the high-security 'Annex,' UNHCR reported.
- The UN has observed a significant decrease in the number of residents at Syria's Al-Hol camp in recent weeks.
- Syrian authorities plan to relocate the remaining families from Al-Hol to Akhtarin camp in Aleppo province and have requested UN assistance.
- The UN will continue to support those who have left Al-Hol as well as those who remain at the camp.
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Mass Exodus from Al-Hol: The Shifting Dynamics in Syrian Refugee Camps
The UNHCR reports a significant reduction in Al-Hol camp residents while the Syrian government plans to relocate remaining families to Akhtarin camp. Many families have departed amidst chaos caused by recent government advances. Efforts continue to reintegrate Syrians, with detained IS affiliates being transferred to Iraq for prosecution.
Population at al-Hol camp dropped sharply as Syria moves to relocate remaining families, U.N. says
The U.N. refugee agency said Sunday that a large number of residents of a camp housing family members of suspected Islamic State group militants have left and the Syrian government plans to relocate those who remain.
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The UN says al-Hol camp population has dropped sharply as Syria moves to relocate remaining families
The U.N. refugee agency says residents are leaving Syria’s al-Hol camp in large numbers, and Syrian authorities plan to relocate those who remain.
Syria's Al-Hol camp emptied after mass escape of jihadist families
After the withdrawal of Kurdish forces on January 20 and under pressure from the Syrian army, the camp was emptied of most of its 24,000 residents, including 6,300 women and children of foreign jihadists.
After the fall of the Islamic State, a large number of jihadist idealists disappeared into the Syrian al-Hol detention camp, nearly 74,000 in fact. At the beginning of this year, 22,000 remained, including a few thousand permanent jihad tourists from the country. Many were women, often with their young children, who were, of course, already monumentally ruined at an impressively young age. Al-Hol also held Dutch Syria fighters and ISIS brides (a…
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