(AFP) Stabbing guards, stoning aid workers and flying the Islamic State's black flag, the wives and children of the "caliphate" are sticking by the jihadists in the Kurdish-run Al-Hol refugee camp in northeastern Syria. Swarming around an AFP journalist, women clad in black praised Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, saying they are waiting for orders from their leader. Kurdish authorities have repeatedly warned that the children of jihadists represent a "time bomb" the world urgently needs to defuse. Without rehabilitation and reintegration, these children could become future "terrorists," they have warned.
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