forces in the war to drive the militant group out of Iraq. The village was an ISIS stronghold but was heavily damaged by Iraqi, Kurdish and U.S. The remains of the village of Hassan Sham line the dirt road that leads to the Hassan Sham displaced persons camp. Early in 2022, it saw deadly attacks by ISIS sleeper cells, targeting workers and those in the camp they have disputes with. Al-Hol holds about 60,000 people who'd been affiliated with ISIS. While some of the camp residents like Majeed and her children have lived there for years, others arrived just this year from the massive al-Hol camp in Syria. But authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan have said they won't force any of the camp residents to leave if they don't want to.Ĭurrently there are 26 camps in northern Iraq, housing nearly 200,000 people. In 2020, Iraq shut down all of the camps for so-called "internally displaced persons" in portions of the country controlled by Baghdad. Hundreds of thousands of them ended up essentially in refugee camps in the country where they'd been born. The wives and children of ISIS were left behind. Others ended up dead or in Iraqi prisoners. Three years later, after a brutal war to oust ISIS, Iraq declared victory over the group.
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