CBS News goes inside Syrian refugee camp filled with ISIS supporters
5 years, 3 months ago

CBS News goes inside Syrian refugee camp filled with ISIS supporters

CBS News  

Al-Hol, Syria — A sprawling refugee camp in northeast Syria is described as a breeding ground for ISIS and a ticking time bomb. The guards call the Syrian refugee camp the "Islamic State" because while they control the fence, inside, they said, ISIS is in charge. CBS News went inside and met women who wouldn't say where they come from, but sound British, and they defended ISIS terror attacks in Europe and the U.S. "This is ISIS ideology, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. CBS News In an ISIS propaganda video, women send a message from the camp.

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Scores of Syrians return home after years at camp housing people linked to the Islamic State group
8 months ago

Scores of Syrians return home after years at camp housing people linked to the Islamic State group

Associated Press  

AL-HOL CAMP, Syria — Scores of Syrian women and children linked to the Islamic State group left a sprawling camp in northeast Syria Wednesday and headed home to the eastern province of Deir el-Zour following mediation by tribal leaders. The latest batch of people to leave al-Hol camp, which houses wives, widows, children and other family members of IS militants, …

Fire breaks out at north Syria camp housing families linked to Islamic State group fighters
1 year, 5 months ago

Fire breaks out at north Syria camp housing families linked to Islamic State group fighters

Associated Press  

QAMISHLI, Syria — A fire broke out Wednesday in a sprawling camp in northeast Syria housing tens of thousands of mostly women and children linked to the Islamic State group causing material damage but no casualties, the camp’s director said. The Al-Hol Camp holds about 51,000 people, the vast majority of them women and children, including the wives, widows and …

Fire breaks out at north Syria camp housing families linked to Islamic State group fighters
1 year, 5 months ago

Fire breaks out at north Syria camp housing families linked to Islamic State group fighters

The Independent  

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Alabama ISIS bride Hoda Muthana fights to return home from Syria camp
2 years ago

Alabama ISIS bride Hoda Muthana fights to return home from Syria camp

The Independent  

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In a rare interview from the Roj detention camp in Syria where …

US-backed Syrian forces free women in 3-week raid of IS camp
2 years, 3 months ago

US-backed Syrian forces free women in 3-week raid of IS camp

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — U.S.-backed Syrian fighters said Saturday they have concluded a 24-day sweep at a sprawling camp in northeast Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to the Islamic State group. IS sleeper cells preparing a new generation of militants — boys and girls being fed extremist ideology to eventually try and set up a second so-called …

In Syria camp, forgotten children are molded by IS ideology
3 years, 7 months ago

In Syria camp, forgotten children are molded by IS ideology

Associated Press  

AL-HOL, Syria — At the sprawling al-Hol camp in northeast Syria, children pass their days roaming the dirt roads, playing with mock swords and black banners in imitation of Islamic State group militants. I will blow you up with a grenade.” Another child slid his hand across his neck and said, “With the knife, God willing.” At a market inside …

Kurdish-led authorities to remove Syrians from al-Hol camp
4 years, 3 months ago

Kurdish-led authorities to remove Syrians from al-Hol camp

Al Jazeera  

Al-Hol camp has some 65,000 people, including about 28,000 Syrians, 30,000 Iraqis and some 10,000 of other nationalities. Kurdish-led authorities in northeast Syria have said Syrians will be moved out of the overcrowded al-Hol camp, which holds displaced people and families of suspected ISIL fighters. Al-Hol camp alone holds some 65,000 people, including about 28,000 Syrians, 30,000 Iraqis and some …

This forgotten camp could be the birthplace of ISIS’ revenge generation
5 years, 3 months ago

This forgotten camp could be the birthplace of ISIS’ revenge generation

CNN  

Al-Hol, Syria CNN — The market at al-Hol camp is a sea of unidentifiable figures clad in black, clutching their children’s grubby hands as they drag them past those haggling their wares. A drawdown of the US military presence in the area has allowed “ISIS ideology to spread ‘uncontested’ in the camp,” the report found. Kareem Khadder/CNN US Secretary of …

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