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Iraqi man shot dead in al-Hol camp in Rojava ​
2022-04-11
[Rudaw] The body of a young Iraqi man, who was rubbed out, was found by the internal security forces (Asayish) in the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava), a conflict monitor reported on Sunday.

The victim was a young Iraqi man who was killed by a weapon with a silencer in the fourth section of the infamous camp, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.

North Press Agency (NPA) also reported the incident, saying the body had "signs of four gunshots."

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested thousands of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) fighters and their wives and children when they took control of the group’s last stronghold in Syria in March 2019. Most of these people are held at al-Hol, which is home to around 56,000 people — mostly women and kiddies of different

Al-Hol has infamously been branded a breeding ground for terrorism, with Kurdish and Iraqi authorities describing the squalid camp as a "ticking time bomb," saying the situation in the camp is "very dangerous."

ISIS sleeper cells are active in the camp and multiple deaths have been reported over the past months.

In late March, security forces in Rojava arrested a suspect allegedly planning a suicide kaboom in the camp.
Related:
Hol camp: 2022-04-09 450 families transferred from al-Hol camp to Iraq: official
Hol camp: 2022-03-30 Clashes in Syrian camp housing IS families kill at least 3, one jacket wallah tied up
Hol camp: 2022-03-20 ISIS affiliates arrested in al-Hol in an ongoing security operation
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