AL HOL

This post will be brief not because of an insignificance of the topic, the brevity is largely due to the fact that currently very few concrete facts are known. 

Al Hol Camp has served different purposes since it was created in 1991 to house refugees of the First Gulf War. This post is regarding what the camp has been used for since 2019 after the battle of Al-Baghuz Fawqani. Since then, the camp has been used as the largest detention center for ISIS militants and their families in Syria which brings us to the news of today

Before today the camp held roughly twenty-five thousand people most of them members of ISIS. The reason I said before today is because the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) who were guarding the camp fled today and the government forces took control of the prison. It is currently unclear if any or how many detainees have been let loose but based on the reports over the last few days of ISIS fighters being set free in other towns and cities the chances are high that the same will take place at Al Hol.

If ISIS fighters and families are being set loose from Al Hol it would pose a significant threat for two main reasons. First, the members of ISIS at the camp are not new recruits who were detained before they actually did anything, but they are hardened fighters who believe in the ideology that the group is built on. The second threat and the more urgent one is Al Hol is approximately 8.7 miles from the border of Iraq. This is a concern because if the fighters get into Iraq and merge with ISIS elements there this group could resurface essentially overnight as a threat to the region and world at large.

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