The al-Hawl refugee camp (also al-Hol refugee camp, [1] Arabic: مخيم الهول للاجئين, Kurdish: کەمپی ھۆڵ, romanized: Kempa holê) [2] is a refugee camp on the southern outskirts of the town of al-Hawl in northern Syria, close to the Syria-Iraq border, which holds individuals displaced from the Islamic State of Iraq and the ...

Mar 11, 2024 · Since the Islamic State fell, tens of thousands of people—many of them children—have been herded into Al-Hol, a giant fenced-in camp in Syria, and effectively given life sentences.

Nov 22, 2022 · AL-HOL, Syria — Inside the sprawling refugee camp in this arid corner of northeast Syria, the kids are everywhere. They’re playing soccer next to a sea of tattered white tents. They’re...

May 8, 2024 · AL-HOL CAMP, Syria (AP) — Scores of Syrian women and children linked to the Islamic State group left a sprawling camp in northeast Syria Wednesday and headed home to the eastern province of Deir el-Zour following mediation by tribal leaders.

Jul 9, 2020 · Although al-Hol camp is often portrayed as either a hotbed of radical fanatics dedicated to ISIS or home to a bunch of poor housewives who were just following their husbands, the reality is much more complicated.

Aug 6, 2024 · There is widespread acknowledgement that residents of Al Hol camp in Al-Hasakeh in Syria must be repatriated. But significant obstacles remain, and collective international effort is needed to solve them.

Oct 6, 2022 · A recent nearly three-week operation at al-Hol — conducted by the Syrian Democratic Forces, with the U.S. military providing intelligence and surveillance — found women and girls who were ...

Al-Hol, the largest camp in Northeast Syria, is located near Syria's eastern border with Iraq. Initially established in 1991 for Iraqi refugees during the Gulf War, it was

Mar 6, 2019 · The Al Hol camp, in north-eastern Syria, holds over 55,000 people. It's the size of a small city. Due to intense fighting in north-eastern Syria, people have been forced to flee their homes, leaving everything behind.

Nov 7, 2022 · A child runs through the streets of Al Hol camp in northeastern Syria, where displaced people, the majority of whom are children, live in violent and unsafe living conditions, and where accessing healthcare is often a terrifying ordeal.