00:00This displacement camp is one of the most complex humanitarian challenges
00:04remaining in post-war Syria.
00:08For years, Al-Hol camp has housed tens of thousands of people
00:12linked to the so-called Islamic State.
00:16What began as a displacement site has since become, in effect,
00:21an open-air detention camp,
00:23mostly for women and children of AIS fighters.
00:27My husband, first he was with al-Nusra, then Islamic State,
00:32and then he was killed in Manbij.
00:34Um Nawal says she has lived at this camp for seven years,
00:39in terrible conditions.
00:41She's Moroccan, and like many foreign women here,
00:44she remains stuck in legal limbo.
00:47That's because many countries have refused to repatriate their citizens,
00:52saying they should be tried in Syria for crimes committed by AIS.
00:58We thought we'd leave and go back to our countries, but we're still detained.
01:04Although the Islamic State's self-declared caliphate collapsed in 2019,
01:10remnants of the group remain,
01:12and its ideology has lived on inside the camp,
01:15largely unchallenged.
01:17Posing a major security challenge for Syria's new government,
01:23whose forces are currently securing the perimeters of the camp.
01:28Aid groups warn that an entire generation of children has grown up here,
01:35deprived of formal education,
01:38living in dire conditions,
01:40and vulnerable to radicalization.
01:42While the UN says it is stepping in to help,
01:47the fate of thousands here is still unclear.
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