Maha al-Nasser queues in front of a crowded clinic in Syria's Al-Hol camp, her frail daughter squirming in her arms under the stifling desert heat.
"My daughter has suffered from convulsions and malnutrition," said 30-year-old Nasser, her face covered in a black veil."When she convulses, she loses consciousness and foam comes out of her mouth," she told AFP at the Kurdish-run camp in northeast Syria.
Syrian Kurdish authorities have repeatedly appealed to the international community for support to manage Al-Hol and other camps AFP/Delil SOULEIMANMonths later, they are among the 70,000 people - mostly women and children - packed into the camp, where residents depend on aid and complain of endless illness, dirty water and boiling hot tents.
The clinic's head Ramadan Youssef al-Daher said heat, poor sanitation and water shortages are contributing to the spread of diseases in Al-Hol."Twenty children died this month, some during childbirth, others because of malnutrition," he told AFP. Foreign women and children are housed in a separate annexe, and most have little hope of returning home as Western countries have been largely reluctant to take them back.It said it saw"overflowing latrines, sewage trickling into tattered tents, and residents drinking wash water from tanks containing worms".
Singapore Latest News, Singapore Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Israel fires missiles into south Syria: State mediaAn Israeli missile attack targeted Syrian military positions held by the government and its allies early on Wednesday, Syria's state news agency said.
Read more »
Islamic State fighters heading home: Is Southeast Asia ready?Roughly 1,000 Southeast Asians joined the conflict in Iraq and Syria. With the terrorist group’s military collapse, Insight examines whether they ...
Read more »
Indonesia: Militant’s arrest reveals plots, links to ISISJAKARTA: Indonesian police said on Tuesday that a suspected militant arrested last week was plotting Independence Day bomb attacks, and they suspect he was part of a network behind the violence in the Philippines that has ties to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria...
Read more »
Australia to bar return of citizens who fought for ISISSYDNEY (AFP) - Australia is poised to bar its citizens who have fought for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group from returning home for up to two years, under new laws discussed in Parliament on Tuesday (July 23).. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Read more »
Australian drug offers hope for stamping out wombat-killing diseaseA disease that has ravaged wombats in southern Australia could be brought under control using a treatment commonly applied by pet owners on cats ...
Read more »
Relaxed UK salt policy tied to more heart disease, cancersDeclines in salt consumption in England have slowed since a 2011 shift in government policy gave greater freedom to the food industry to set and ...
Read more »