- The commander of all US military forces in the Middle East made an urgent appeal to the international community after visiting the al-Hol camp for Islamic State detainees in northeast Syria on Friday.
- Some 56,000 suspected family members of IS fighters continue to languish at the site more than three years after the US and Syrian Kurdish-led forces defeated the jihadist group on the battlefield in 2019.
- A running series of murders and even beheadings of camp residents believed to be carried out by a network of IS enforcers known as the hisba have been discovered by security forces at al-Hol in recent years.
<span>Senior US commander sounds alarm over Syria’s Islamic State prison camps</span>
