Camp in Syria That Houses IS Terrorist Families Experiences Fire

A large camp in northeast Syria housing tens of thousands of largely women and children affiliated with the Islamic State group caught fire on Wednesday, inflicting material damage but no injuries, according to the camp’s director.

About 51,000 people live in the Al-Hol Camp, the most of them are women and children, including the spouses, widows, and other relatives of IS fighters. The majority come from Syria and Iraq.

However, in a section of the camp known as the Annex, there are also some 8,000 women and children from 60 different nations who reside there. They are often regarded as the camp inhabitants who support IS the most fervently.

Jihan Hanan, the camp’s director, told The Associated Press that the fire started in the annex and destroyed 10 tents before spreading to a building for a children’s group. She continued by saying that a container utilized by the facility was also burned.

Hanan said that the cause of the fire that started early on Wednesday afternoon was yet unclear. She continued by saying that tanker tankers were brought in from outside the camp by the local Asayesh Kurdish police group to put out the fire.

The majority of those who were permitted to return home are Syrians and Iraqis, who made up the majority of the camp’s 73,000 peak population. However, other nations have mostly resisted accepting their citizens who left their country to join IS when the violent organization took control of a significant portion of Iraq and Syria in 2014.

IS sleeper cells continue to conduct lethal strikes in both Syria and Iraq despite the terrorist group’s defeats in both countries in 2019 and 2017. Ghastly atrocities have been perpetrated within al-Hol throughout the years.