Foreign women with Islamic State have tried to assault others they deem 'in...
AL-HOL CAMP, Syria - Foreign women with Islamic State have tried to assault others they deem “infidels” at a camp where they are being held in northeast Syria, trying to impose their views even as the jihadists are facing territorial defeat, Reuters journalists visiting the site have found.
The Baghouz enclave is Islamic State’s last shred of populated territory after years of attacks have rolled back its ultra-radical “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq. At least 62,000 people have now flooded the camp, the United Nations said on Friday, way above its capacity. More than 90 percent of the new arrivals are women and children.
Some of the women coming out of Baghouz in recent weeks have displayed strongly pro-Islamic State sympathies. “The situation in the camp is very miserable. The displaced are growing very much and we are trying to cover people’s needs as much as we can. But we need help,” said Mazin Shekhi, an official at the camp.
“There were problems with some people,” said a 30-year-old woman from Turkestan who gave her name as Dilnor.
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