In September, the SDF conducted an operation to root out ISIS fighters inside the camp. The SDF began providing security to the camp in 2016, but as the population swelled, conditions worsened, until eventually criminal violence and acts of brutality by ISIS made this one of the most dangerous places on earth per capita, according to the aid group Save the Children. But the annex also holds Australians, French, Dutch and many other citizens, including individuals who traveled from other countries to join ISIS. The largest group there are 1,500 Russian citizens, with the 1,300 Chinese citizens and 1,100 Turkish the next largest. The foreign annex holds roughly 8,000 people from about 50 different countries. The other half are filled with 18,200 Syrians. Four of the sections hold about 27,000 Iraqi citizens. Today the camp is split into eight sections and a foreign annex. Women and children gather in front their tents at al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria, on May 1, 2021. Within weeks, the population skyrocketed from about 10,000 to more than 73,000 residents. The autonomous government in the region had been running it since 2016. While most ISIS fighters were killed or captured, their families were bused to the refugee camp as a temporary holding place, but with no long-term alternatives. The situation at the refugee camp changed dramatically three years ago after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) defeated the last ISIS stronghold in Baghuz, where the most extreme fighters had been dug in for months with their families. officials denied NBC News’ request to interview camp residents, citing security concerns.
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McFarlane and other top military officials visited the camp to get an update on operations. commander in Iraq and Syria, said in an interview at the camp last week. “ISIS can plant a seed in one of those areas based on the conditions and try and grow and foment its radical ideology,” Maj. Biden administration officials have been alarmed by the speed with which the camp has grown to include tens of thousands of relatives of suspected ISIS members and become a breeding ground for people loyal to ISIS. The refugee camp, opened in 1991 during the first Gulf War, has exploded into a humanitarian disaster and a serious international terrorism threat. Delil Souleiman / AFP via Getty Images file 28, 2022, during a security campaign by the Syrian Democratic Forces against IS "sleeper cells" in the camp. Members of the Syrian Kurdish Asayish security forces inspect tents at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, on Aug. The plight of these children is a chief concern among U.S.
Most fled here with their mothers and extended family members in late 2018 and early 2019 as the Islamic State terrorist group lost the last of its territory in Syria. Of the roughly 54,000 residents in the al-Hol refugee camp, nearly half are children under the age of 12.
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