Foreign Wives And Children Of ISIS Are Held In Syria With Uncertain Future
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Foreign Wives And Children Of ISIS Are Held In Syria With Uncertain Future

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Foreign Wives And Children Of ISIS Are Held In Syria With Uncertain Future Enlarge this image toggle caption Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images Um Mohammed says she was in search of a happier life when she decided to bring her family from the Netherlands to live under ISIS. In addition to the over 500 male suspected ISIS members, Kurdish officials say they are holding some 550 foreign women and about 1,200 foreign children in all the camps combined. Sponsor Message "Just like we fought terrorism together, we must stand together in dealing with the aftermath," says Abdul Karim Omar, who co-chairs the Kurdish administration's foreign affairs office. Enlarge this image toggle caption Ruth Sherlock/NPR Ruth Sherlock/NPR "We cannot leave them free," says Zozan Alloush, the co-chair for the Kurdish humanitarian affairs committee overseeing the camps where the women and children are held.

History of this topic

Kurdish-led forces push back Turkish-backed Syrian rebels in a tense offensive
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Australian ISIS brides beg for mercy after their killer husbands left them stranded in Syrian detention camps
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Iraq court sentences a widow of ISIL leader al-Baghdadi to death
6 months ago
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
8 months ago
After years in a Syrian ISIS camp, a 10-person American family is back in the U.S.
8 months ago
Iraq repatriates nearly 700 more citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a Syrian camp
8 months, 1 week ago
Syrian Kurdish officials hand over 50 women and children linked to Islamic State group to Tajikistan
8 months, 2 weeks ago
US-backed Syrian force that defeated IS 5 years ago warns group still poses international threat
9 months, 2 weeks ago
UN-backed commission says 30,000 children are suffering rights abuses in northeastern Syria
9 months, 4 weeks ago
US-backed Syrian fighters liberate Yazidi woman who was raped and forced to marry extremists
11 months ago
Failing to reintegrate Iraq’s Sunni rebels could prove costly
1 year, 1 month ago
Iraq steps up repatriations from Islamic State camp in Syria, hoping to reduce militant threats
1 year, 3 months ago
Kyrgyzstan brings back 95 ISIL wives, children from Syrian internment camps
1 year, 4 months ago
Syria’s Kurds to try IS fighters after their home countries refused to repatriate them
1 year, 7 months ago
Syria's Kurds to try IS fighters after their home countries refused to repatriate them
1 year, 7 months ago
Four Dutch women with ISIS ties sentenced to prison by Rotterdam court
1 year, 8 months ago
Alabama ISIS bride Hoda Muthana fights to return home from Syria camp
2 years ago
Former IS families face neighbors’ hatred returning home
2 years ago
Group warns of rampant violence in Syria camp of IS families
2 years, 2 months ago
Twelve women remanded into custody on terrorism charges after arrival from Syria
2 years, 2 months ago
17 Australian women, children return from Syrian camp
2 years, 2 months ago
The Netherlands to bring back 12 jihadi brides and 29 children: RTL
2 years, 3 months ago
The Netherlands to bring back 12 jihadi brides and 29 children: RTL
2 years, 3 months ago
US-backed Syrian forces free women in 3-week raid of IS camp
2 years, 3 months ago
German woman jailed for taking son to Syria to join Islamic State
2 years, 5 months ago
Syria's Kurds Repatriate Nearly 150 IS-Related Tajikistan Women, Children
2 years, 5 months ago
Advocates fear for women and children in Syrian camps following death of Yusuf Zahab
2 years, 5 months ago
Fighting ongoing in Syria’s Hassakeh as SDF raids ISIL hideouts
2 years, 11 months ago
Syrian Kurds retake prison, ending six-day Islamic State attack
2 years, 11 months ago
Syria: Deadly fighting rages on between ISIL, Kurdish forces
2 years, 11 months ago
700 boys trapped in Syrian prison seized by ISIS used as human shields
3 years ago
Truck rams into tent in Syria camp, killing 3 Iraqi women
3 years, 1 month ago
Germany and Denmark repatriate women, children from Syria camp
3 years, 3 months ago
Dutch woman, three children repatriated from Syria IS camp
3 years, 7 months ago
Dutch delegation brings back three children and one woman from Syria
3 years, 7 months ago
In Syria camp, forgotten children left to be molded by IS
3 years, 7 months ago
In Syria camp, forgotten children are molded by IS ideology
3 years, 7 months ago
Fire kills 3 children in Syrian camp housing IS families
3 years, 10 months ago
Killings surge in Syria camp housing Islamic State families
3 years, 10 months ago
Killings surge in Syria camp housing Islamic State families
3 years, 10 months ago
UN: Bring home kids from Syria with possible extremist links
3 years, 11 months ago
Kurdish-led authorities to remove Syrians from al-Hol camp
4 years, 3 months ago
Two Dutch ISIS women, three children escaped Syrian camp, fled to Turkey
5 years, 2 months ago
ISIS seizes control of prison camp in Syria after Turkish invasion
5 years, 2 months ago
Syria’s Kurds look to Assad for protection after US pullout
5 years, 2 months ago
Turkish offensive sparks yet another Syrian exodus
5 years, 3 months ago
US takes custody of two high-profile ISIL fighters
5 years, 3 months ago
Uncertainty over jailed ISIL suspects’ fate before looming push
5 years, 3 months ago
ISIS widow pleads for Netherlands to allow her four kids to return
5 years, 6 months ago

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