A woman carries a child as she walks through one of the alleys of the al-Hol camp, Oct. 10, 2023. (Credit: Delil Souleiman/AFP)
Alaa Androun and her three daughters were seriously wounded in 2019 by a landmine in Jarablus, near the Turkish-Syrian border, as they attempted to flee Syria when the IS caliphate (Islamic State group) was collapsing.Alaa is the widow of Mohammad Ihali, an ISIS recruiter killed during the battle of Baghouz in March 2019, which marked the end of the group in Syria.Originally from Tripoli, in northern Lebanon, the couple had settled in Raqqa, northern Syria, then ISIS’s capital, in 2014. Read more UNHCR defends itself after Litani Authority blamed refugee camps for river pollution At 35, Alaa is detained with her daughters today in the al-Hol camp, run by the Kurdish Autonomous Administration in northeastern Syria, like thousands of wives and widows of jihadists waiting to be repatriated.In total, 19 Lebanese women and children are...
Alaa Androun and her three daughters were seriously wounded in 2019 by a landmine in Jarablus, near the Turkish-Syrian border, as they attempted to flee Syria when the IS caliphate (Islamic State group) was collapsing.Alaa is the widow of Mohammad Ihali, an ISIS recruiter killed during the battle of Baghouz in March 2019, which marked the end of the group in Syria.Originally from Tripoli, in northern Lebanon, the couple had settled in Raqqa, northern Syria, then ISIS’s capital, in 2014. Read more UNHCR defends itself after Litani Authority blamed refugee camps for river pollution At 35, Alaa is detained with her daughters today in the al-Hol camp, run by the Kurdish Autonomous Administration in northeastern Syria, like thousands of wives and widows of jihadists waiting to be repatriated.In total, 19 Lebanese women and children...
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