CAMP CALIPHATE
ISIS takes ‘full control’ of al-Hawl camp slaughtering babies and dousing guards in petrol as they vow to restart jihad
ISIS has taken control of the Al-Hawl camp and has wasted no time slaughtering babies and dousing guards in petrol, it has been reported.
Female members of ISIS' morality police al-Hisbah have unleashed a reign of terror within the Syrian camp by enforcing the terrorist group's radical laws upon the population.
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Al-Hisbah have ordered attacks against guards, burnt down tents, dismembered bodies, doused women in petrol and have smuggled guns into the camp as ISIS vowed to restart their jihad.
The number of jihadists escaping the camp has skyrocketed and those who are recaptured have admitted to wanting to join the Turkish-backed Islamic militants.
Aylul Rizgar, 30, is the camp's senior administrator and has been repeatedly threatened with decapitation.
She told : "I have lost count of the number of times the women here have told me that when Islamic State returns they’ll cut my head off and put it on a pole."
She has also been attacked by a mum and her two daughters who bit her and doused her in petrol.
Al-Hawl is home to 68,000 ISIS family members after they fled the jihadists' last stand in Baghouz earlier this year.
Among its residents include 10,100 foreign citizens, including 18 British women and children - and was where ISIS bride Shamima Begum was found in February.
The future of the camp has also been muddied after Russia and Turkey agreed on Tuesday to enforce the removal of Kurdish fighters from the 20-mile "safe zone" laid out by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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INSURGENCE
Al-Hawl is several miles south of the zone, but Kurdish administration is who has been policing the camp.
Security in the camp has deteriorated since the Turkish army launched its attack on northern Syria earlier this month.
More than half of al-Hawl's 400 guards have since been redeployed after Turkish-backed militias have pressed into areas held by the Kurds.
In the past week, an Iraqi woman was bludgeoned to death and the body of a baby who was beaten to death was found in rucksack.
Ms Rizgar said: "It was a boy, about a year old. Don’t ask me why he was killed. You won’t find a reason in Islam.”
The number of ISIS women who has escaped has skyrocketed and even though 94 have been recaptured in the first five days of Turkey's assault - the camp doesn't know how many have successful got away.
Ms Rizgar added: "Those we caught told us they had an interest in fleeing to Iraq, but instead wanted to join the jihadist groups working with the Turks on the battlefield and attack us."
The ISIS flag has been raised twice in al-Hawl in recent weeks and a homemade roadside bomb was found on the main road into the camp.
'IT'S CHAOS'
Two couriers have also been arrested for trying to bring cash to women inside the camp.
Ms Rizgar said: "Islamic State are trying to refinance themselves using the camp as a base. It’s a mini-caliphate in there. It’s chaos.”
Turkish-backed militants have been fighting the US-backed Kurds since October 9.
Yesterday, sick footage appeared to show pro-Turkey rebels desecrating the corpse of a female Kurdish fighter and branding her a whore.
Erdgoan launched an offensive called "Operation Peace Spring" the moment US President Donald Trump pulled his troops from the border between North East Syria and Turkey.
Mr Trump ordered all US troops to withdraw from the country's north to avoid a bloody conflict between Turkey and US-backed Kurdish fighters.
With the US abandoning their former allies, Kurdish forces near the Syrian border struck a deal with President Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government to fight against Turkey.
Despite the US and Turkey brokering a five-day ceasefire to allow the Kurds to leave the "safe zone", it was reported Erdogan's forced were shelling and engaging in clashes.
Last night, Mr Trump claimed the US had saved the lives of “thousands” of people in Syria in a rousing speech to his supporters last night.
The President declared the US was no longer fighting other peoples' wars and took credit for the ceasefire brokered between Russia and Turkey earlier this week.
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The long-persecuted Kurds live in mountainous regions stretching across northern Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
Erdogan has said he wants to clear Kurdish fighters from the buffer zone running more than 20 miles into Syria, and around 440km along the border.
Turkey then plans to resettle up to two million Syrian refugees into this buffer zone - a move that could trigger the ethnic cleansing of the Kurdish population.
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