"Rising up out of the desert in a territory recognized by almost no one, the huge al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria for years had posed an intractable problem a destitute and increasingly dangerous detention site where ISIS ideology lived on. Syrian Kurdish forces guarded and administered the camp and detained tens of thousands of women and children there. The detainees had been part of the Islamic State's self-declared caliphate, which the militant group built after seizing large parts of Syria and Iraq in 2014,"
"On Tuesday, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement that "due to the international community's indifference towards the ISIS issue and its failure to assume its responsibilities in addressing this serious matter, our forces were compelled to withdraw from al-Hol camp and redeploy." The SDF said the camp's guards were deployed to cities in northern Syria to confront the threat from Syrian government troops taking over Kurdish-held territory."
Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria became a destitute, increasingly dangerous detention site where ISIS ideology persisted, housing tens of thousands of women and children previously part of the Islamic State's self-declared caliphate. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces withdrew guards and redeployed personnel to northern cities citing international indifference and the need to confront Syrian government advances. Syrian government forces moved in to secure the camp amid reports that a security vacuum allowed some detainees to escape. U.S. Central Command began transporting thousands of detained ISIS fighters to an unnamed secure location in neighboring Iraq. The fates of the tens of thousands of family members at al-Hol remain unclear.
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