Syrian Kurdish-led administration makes database for foreign ISIS families

QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Autonomous Administration in northeast Syria started establishing a detailed database for the families of the Islamic State (ISIS) living in al-Hawl, an official statement said on Tuesday.

"This collection of data helps … facilitate coordination with the countries whose nationals reside in the camp and urge them to assume their responsibilities towards their citizens," the statement read.
Al-Hawl camp, located south of the city of Hasakeh in the country's northeast, hosts 11,000 foreign women and children of ISIS militants from about 54 countries, held in a separate part of the camp known as the ISIS Foreigners’ Section.

The camp also hosts 63,000 individuals, including Iraqi refugees and Syrian internally displaced people (IDPs).

The detailed database will contain only the 11,000 ISIS women and children, the statement added. "This measure is taken to preserve security and prevent terrorist acts in our region and around the world." 

In March 2019, the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) eliminated ISIS in its last stronghold in Syria's village of Baghouz in Deir ez-Zor province in the country's east, near the border with Iraq.

Since then, the names of foreign ISIS women and children were listed but without further details.

In 2019, foreign ISIS women have reportedly set up their own court and religious police, who have been meting out punishments, including killing Iraqi refugees and Syrian IDPs – even killing children when they disobey orders from the ISIS council.

The women also set up a group of children, training them to be what they called “cubs of the caliphate.” These radicalized children are trained to slaughter chickens and goats first as practice to behead humans and become suicide bombers, security sources in the camp told North-Press.