Europe's Dilemma: Take In ISIS Families, or Leave Them in Syria?
Europeâs Dilemma: Take In ISIS Families, or Leave Them in Syria? Many countries have resisted allowing the return of families of ISIS members. Security experts say that leaving the women and their children in Syria is a greater risk. The Hol detention camp in Kurdish-controlled northern Syria in 2019. More than 200 women from Europe and their 650 children now live there and in another Syrian camp.Credit...Ivor Prickett for The New York Times May 28, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET When Belgium said in March that it would repatriate some women who had joined the Islamic State, along with their childre...