Inside the largest ISIS prison camp in Syria | Frontline | Daily Mail

Since ISIS lost its last stronghold in Syria in 2019, tens of thousands of its fighters and their radicalised families have been detained in makeshift prisons and refugee camps scattered across Rojava - northeastern Syria’s Kurdish-led autonomous region.

The largest and most infamous of these camps, Al-Hol, has been transformed into a self-policing dystopia where jihadist gangs spread their doctrine and enforce their rule through fear. Beyond its fences, ISIS cells continue recruiting and plotting, waiting for the opportune moment to break out the families within.

MailOnline’s Chief Foreign Reporter David Averre travelled to Al-Hol to see firsthand what life is like inside this volatile encampment - and to learn why Rojava’s leaders, military chiefs, and civilians are sounding the alarm over what they claim is a ticking time bomb. He also visited Shamima Begum, the notorious British teenager who left London to join ISIS at just 15.

Finally, David went to a refugee camp in Raqqa, where families displaced by Turkey’s 2018 military operation in Afrin are struggling to rebuild their lives.

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