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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Children ‘Trapped’ in Syria Camps at Risk, Warns Aid Group

Women and a child queue to receive humanitarian aid packages at the Kurdish-run Al-Hol camp in Syria. (AFP)

About 7,000 children of suspected foreign extremists housed in overcrowded detention camps in northeast Syria are at risk of attack and must be repatriated, an aid organization warned Wednesday. 

Since the ISIS group's 2019 territorial defeat in Syria, around 56,000 relatives of defeated extremists have been detained in the Kurdish-controlled Al-Hol and Roj camps. 

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