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People walk through Ain Issa, one of many camps that holds displaced Syrians along with international spouses of ISIS fighters and kids. Huge number of international females and kids languish in shelters in northeastern Syria, undesired by their house governments along with no future that is clear.

Um Mohammed states she was at search of the happier life whenever she made a decision to bring her household through the Netherlands to call home under ISIS.

“we thought the ISIS ‘caliphate’ could be perfect, such as a utopia,” claims Um Mohammed, whom defines having believed discriminated against being a Muslim when you look at the Netherlands and claims the militant team’s online propaganda drew her in. “I don’t think life into the caliphate ended up being what many people expected. We regret having and going, you understand, to endure this.”

Now she actually is certainly one of a huge number of international females and kids who languish in detention camps in northeastern Syria, unwelcome by their property governments along with no clear future.

As with any the ladies interviewed by NPR at Roj camp, Um Mohammed, 32, asks become understood just by her nickname she ever be allowed to return to the Netherlands because she fears the public stigma should. (more…)