Foreign women detained for alleged links to ISIS fighters in north-east Syria are becoming more rebellious, as a handover of the camp to the government nears, a camp administrator who works with the SDF has told The National.
Slogans associated with Islamist militants were found written on a classroom blackboard at Al Roj camp, according to Hukmiya, who works with the women and children held there. They included “ISIS is coming” and chants referring to 'non-believers', she said, giving only her first name.
Al Roj camp houses 2,600 mostly foreign women and their children and is administered by the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led armed group who fought ISIS in the US-led coalition.
Although it is intended as a refugee camp, residents are not allowed to leave because of their suspected links to ISIS, in what rights groups hav
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