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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Hogir Al Abdo and Bassem Mroue

Teenagers from Islamic State families undergo rehabilitation in Syria, but future still uncertain

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For at least four years, thousands of children have been growing up in a camp in northeast Syria housing families of Islamic State group militants, raised in an atmosphere where the group’s radical ideology still circulates and where they have almost no chance for an education.

Fearing that a new generation of militants will emerge from al-Hol Camp, the Kurdish officials who govern eastern and northern Syria are experimenting with a rehabilitation program aimed at pulling children out of extremist thought.

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