The Forgotten Children of ISIS Fighters
Without Country, Citizenship, Protection, or Even Compassion, Thousands Remain in a Precarious Limbo
Accounts of two young girls, both named Amira, have dominated the 2020 news cycle out of Syria.
One girl, a 3-year-old Australian, has been in the Kurdish-run refugee camp al-Hol and was about to lose her fingers to frostbite because of the lack of heating and infrastructure at the camp. The other Amira, a Canadian, was discovered last year walking through the rubble of Baghouz after both her parents were killed in the aerial bombardment that heralded the end of ISIS’s territorial control. This Amira was also held at the …
