Islamic State extremism on show at 'miserable' Syria camp
by Reuters
Friday, 8 March 2019 18:20 GMT
Camp officials say they do not have enough tents, food, or medicine, while aid workers warn of spreading diseases
By Ellen Francis
AL-HOL CAMP, Syria, March 8 (Reuters) - Foreign women with Islamic State have tried to assault others they deem "infidels" at a camp where they are being held in northeast Syria, attempting to impose their views even as the jihadists are facing territorial defeat, Reuters journalists visiting the site have found.
"They yell at us that we are infidels for showing our faces," said a Syrian woman at al-Hol camp, where women and children were transferred from Islamic State's final bastion in eastern Syria. "They tried to hit us."
The Baghouz enclave is Islamic State's last shred of populated territory after years of attacks have rolled back its ultra-radical "caliphate" in Syria and Iraq.
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