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No Way Home: Former IS Suspects Languish in Camps to Avoid Re-Arrest

Heather Murdock

   HASSAN SHAM CAMP, IRAQ - Abdullah was a 23-year-old business
   administration student when Islamic State fighters swept through
   northern Iraq in 2014. Two years later, he fled the battle between IS
   and coalition-backed Iraqi forces. He was arrested and accused of being
   a terrorist.

   "We ran from our home because there was no food or water and we were
   being bombed," he says, crowded into a tent scattered with dirty, thin
   mattresses, mobile phone chargers and about 10 other men. "I couldn't
   survive."

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