Al-Hawl camp residents live in fear under Daesh ultra-extremists

Clashes with guards, violent factional quarrels and a new strain of ultra-extremism - Daesh’s (ISIS) territorial caliphate may be defeated, but a camp in eastern Syria is emerging as a fresh militant powder keg. Dislodged in a final offensive by a Kurdish-led ground force and coalition airstrikes, thousands of wives and children of Daesh militants have flooded in from a string of Syrian villages south of the camp in recent months.

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