Fewer than 1,000 families remain at a camp in northeastern Syria's Hassakeh that once held relatives of suspected Daesh members, its former director said Wednesday, after thousands fled last month as government forces seized the area from the YPG/PKK terrorist group.
Al-Hol, near the Iraqi border, was one of the main detention camps for relatives of suspected Daesh terrorist fighters who were detained during the U.S.-backed campaign against the terrorist group in Syria.
Control of the camp changed hands last month when government forces under President Ahmed al-Sharaa seized swathes of the northeast from the YPG/PKK-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), including several jails holding Daesh fighters. The U.S. military said last week it had completed a mission to transfer 5,700 adult male Daesh detainees to Iraq.
Jihan Hanna, the former director who still coordinates with international agencies and the Syrian government, told Reuters the remaining families were Syrian nationals and were being transferred to a camp in Aleppo. Most of the camp’s foreign nationals had fled, she said.
The Syrian government did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
