The UN said it was taking over the management of vast camps in Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to ISIS, after the rapid retreat of the Kurdish-led forces that had guarded the sites for years.
More than 10,000 ISIS members, most of whom are set to be transferred to Iraq, along with tens of thousands of women and children, have been held for years in about a dozen prisons and detention camps in Syria, guarded by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The SDF has rapidly retreated this week after clashes with Syrian government forces, raising concerns about security at prisons and humanitarian
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