Clashes with guards, violent factional quarrels and a new strain of ultra-extremism. The ISIS territorial “caliphate” may be defeated, but a camp in eastern Syria is emerging as a fresh powder keg.
Among the hordes of Syrians and Iraqis, some 9,000 foreigners are held in a fenced section of the encampment, under the watch of Kurdish forces.
The semi-autonomous Kurdish administration that rules much of north-eastern Syria is urging countries of origin to take back their citizens.
The women and children need to be re-educated and reintegrated by their home countries.
