Al-Hol refugee / IDP camp

Local nameAl Hol Refugee / IDP Camp
LocationAl-Hasakah, Syria

The al-Hawl refugee camp is a refugee camp on the southern outskirts of the town of al-Hawl in northern Syria, close to the Syria-Iraq border, which holds individuals displaced from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The camp is nominally controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces but according the U.S. Government, much of the camp is run by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant who use the camp for indoctrination and recruitment purposes.As of February 2021, the camp's population was more than 60,000 having grown from 10,000 at the beginning of 2019 after the SDF took the last of the Islamic State's territory in Syria in the Battle of Baghuz Fawqani. The refugees are women and children from many countries, primarily Syria and Iraq.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Hawl_refugee_camp

Address Syria

Coordinates 36°22'37.852" N 41°8'15.903" E

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