Six years after the fall of the self-proclaimed caliphate of the Islamic State organization, thousands of women and children remain detained in camps in northeast Syria. Under the responsibility of the Kurds since 2019, these prisoners perceived as affiliated with IS depend on a non-state authority unable to judge or extradite them. The camps escape the protection of international humanitarian laws, but this pending situation could change with the fall of the Assad regime.
In Syrians camps for IS suspects, families in the future uncertain
