Marwa Ahmad rarely leaves her run-down house. The mother of four says people look at her with suspicion, while her children get bullied and beaten up at school. Her family is paying the price, she says, because she once belonged to the Islamic State.
Marwa Ahmad poses for a photo in Raqqa, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022. Ahmad is among tens of thousands of widows and wives of IS militants who were detained in the wretched and lawless al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria after U.S.-led coalition and Syrian Kurdish forces cleared IS from northeastern Syria in 2019. RAQQA, Syria — Marwa Ahmad rarely leaves her run-down house in the Syrian city of Raqqa.
There also remains fear of IS sleeper cells that continue to carry out attacks. IS militants in Raqqa on Monday attacked and killed six members of the Kurdish-led security forces, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces. The attack came following a surge of SDF and U.S. raids targeting IS militants in eastern Syria.
She says the neighborhood bakery sometimes refuses to give her bread. Even her own father, who did not approve of her joining the extremist group, threatened a shop owner who employed her that he would accuse him of communicating with IS if he didn’t fire her. Conditions are dire. Kurdish-led authorities and activists blame IS sleeper cells for surging violence within the camp, includingin November. Ahmad says life in al-Hol was similar to life under IS, “except you’re fenced in.”
Despite all this, Ahlam Abdulla, another woman released from al-Hol, says life in the camp was better than in her hometown of Raqqa.
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