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 ...

Feb 23, 2024 · The two camps - Al Roj and Al Hol - are heavily guarded and the living conditions are basic, with most of the residents housed in rudimentary tents. Human rights groups have long argued they are arbitrarily detained, without trial in dangerous conditions.

Oct 24, 2021 · According to the BBC, al-Roj is one of the most dangerous camps in Syria because it contains a large number of dangerous ISIS women. Security personnel usually express fears for the safety of camp visitors, given the radical and aggressive nature of …

Apr 17, 2024 · This includes an estimated 11,500 men, 14,500 women, and 30,000 children held in at least 27 detention facilities and two detention camps – Al-Hol and Roj. The autonomous authorities are the principal partner of the US government and other coalition members who defeated IS in north-east Syria.

Feb 7, 2025 · (Beirut) – Tens of thousands of people remain trapped in life-threatening conditions in al-Hol and Roj camps in northeast Syria amid renewed hostilities two months after the fall of Bashar...

Jul 24, 2024 · While Al Hol and Roj camps in Syria have received episodic attention in mainstream media, they have been the focus of more sustained examination and reporting, with recent postings of significant research findings in the online forum, Just Security.org, and long-form journalism in The New Yorker.

Jun 11, 2024 · According to Amnesty, the estimated 30,000 children currently held in at least 27 detention facilities and two detention camps – Al-Hol and Al-Roj – in northeastern Syria represent the highest...

Mar 23, 2021 · According to humanitarian groups and the UN Office of Counterterrorism, more than 700 detainees in al-Hol and Roj – at least half of them children – have died in the past two years.

Feb 26, 2024 · Sky goes inside the heavily guarded Al Roj camp in northern Syria to talk to the families of ISIS fighters, many of whom are from the West,. They say they have been abandoned by their countries and their children held responsible for the sins of their fathers.

Mar 19, 2024 · In July 2023, Fionnuala Ni Aolain—at the time a special rapporteur for the UN Human Rights Council—stated that the situation in Roj was “somewhat better” than in al-Hol, but that conditions there were still harsh, with residents experiencing limited access to water, healthcare, and education.