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Women walk in Roj detention camp in northeast Syria Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. Syrian Kurdish authorities are struggling to supervise tens of thousands of IS-affiliated foreign nationals they are holding in camps and prisons across northeast Syria, with no one to take them. A deadly prison attack last month has sharpened the focus on the detainees' uncertain future. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

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Crisis looms in Syria camps, jails holding foreign nationals
By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press
Thu,02/17/22-1:21AM , 435 Reads
ROJ CAMP, Syria (AP) — It was night when Zakia Kachar heard the sounds of footsteps approach her tent in a detention camp for foreigners affiliated with Islamic State group extremists. With rocks in their hands, the wives of IS fighters had come for her.
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Roza Barakat poses for a portrait in a safe house in Hassakeh, Syria, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022. Barakat was 11 years old when she was taken by IS militants, along with thousands of others, when the extremists overran her hometown of Sinjar in northwestern Iraq. Eight years later, she is living in the shadows, afraid to go home and fearing her community won't accept her. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

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Adrift after enslavement, Yazidi teen says she can't go home
By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press
Thu,02/10/22-12:24AM , 318 Reads
BARZAN, Syria (AP) — Roza Barakat's tormentors have been defeated, but the horrors she endured still hold her captive.

She was 11 years old when she was captured and enslaved by the Islamic State group, along with thousands of other Yazidi women and girls taken when the militants overran northern Iraq in their brutal 2014 campaign.
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Civilians return to the city after fighting subsideds in Hassakeh, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. The Islamic State group's Jan. 20 attack on the prison in Hassakeh was the biggest military operation by the extremist group since the fall of their self-declared caliphate in 2019. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

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Stung by prison battle, Kurds say they need help against IS
By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press
Fri,02/04/22-12:29PM , 267 Reads
HASSAKEH, Syria (AP) — Weeks after the long, furious battle with militants from the Islamic State group over a prison in northeastern Syria, the mangled wreckage of a car used by suicide bombers still sat outside its perimeter. Cranes put in place new cement blast walls to close off the entrance.
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Chinese lecturer, Zhiwei Hu, left, teachers and officials of the Chinese Language Department stand in front of Chinese language books intended for students in Salahaddin University in Irbil, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2021. The Chinese language school in northern Iraq is attracting students who hope to land jobs with a growing number of Chinese companies in the oil, infrastructure, construction, and telecommunications sectors in the region. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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Chinese soft power in Iraq: Speak the language, get jobs
By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press
Fri,01/28/22-12:15AM , 453 Reads
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — In a classroom in northern Iraq, Zhiwei Hu presides over his students as a conductor would an orchestra. He cues with a question, and the response from his students resounds in perfect, fluent Chinese.
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