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No Way Home: Former IS Detainees Doomed to Limbo in Iraq

Heather Murdock

   ISTANBUL / HASSAN'¯SHAM, IRAQ - The Hassan Sham Camp, like so many
   others in Iraq,'¯was built in 2016, as Iraqi and coalition forces
   retook territories held by the Islamic State terror group.

   At least a million people fled their homes at the time and tens of
   thousands of men were arrested as IS suspects in the chaos.

   In the years that followed, many were found guilty. Many were not. But
   here in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, hundreds of men who were
   acquitted or released after serving sentences for minor crimes are
   stuck in camps, with no way home.

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