00:00What did you know about ISIS? Did you know anything?
00:02I swear, nothing.
00:04Alma is from Serbia. She claims she didn't know anything about ISIS when her husband promised her a new life
00:09in Syria a decade ago.
00:30We are in al-Raj camp in northeast Syria. Many children here grow up knowing nothing else but this place.
00:35It's been a detention camp for a decade for people suspected of ties to ISIS.
00:40Most detainees here are foreign nationals from Europe, Central Asia, North Africa.
00:45About half of them we are being told want to go home, but it remains completely unclear when the next
00:50transfers or returns will take place.
00:54Rashid Omar, one of the officials here, says the other detainees want to stay in Syria and rejoin ISIS.
01:00He recently found children playing with this.
01:19ISIS seized large parts of Syria during the civil war.
01:23Kurdish-led forces, the SDF, became one of the main groups fighting and helping defeat its territorial rule.
01:29As Syria undergoes a political transition, control of the ISIS detention camps is said to be transferred from the SDF
01:35to the central government.
01:37Rashid warns that during the handover, detainees could escape, as has happened elsewhere.
01:50Much of post-war Syria is struggling with power cuts, unemployment, and uncertainty.
01:55Chinar Sali, a Kurdish rights expert, warns that amid widespread poverty, ISIS could regroup.
02:01Chinar Sali, a Kurdish rights expert, warns that there is no longer an Islamist, but it is no longer an
02:16Islamist.
02:17Alma says she wants to continue practicing Islam, but she is no longer an Islamist.
02:21Only what I want, what my dreams is, is I take my children and go, come back in my country,
02:32go outside from Syria.
02:35Yeah.
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