(Washington Post) Louisa Loveluck and Souad Mekhennet - Die-hard ISIS adherents have come in the past few months to dominate parts of the al-Hol displacement camp in northeastern Syria, according to camp residents. About 20,000 women and 50,000 children who had lived under the caliphate are held at the camp, which is operated and guarded by 400 U.S.-supported Kurdish troops. With the men of ISIS imprisoned elsewhere, the women at al-Hol are reimposing ISIS strictures, enforcing them with beatings and other brutality and extending what residents and camp authorities call a reign of fear.
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