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July 23, 2019 Report

Syria: Dire Conditions for ISIS Suspects’ Families

Countries Should Support Citizens’ Returns, Increase Aid

A girl stands in the annex of al-Hol camp in northeast Syria, where more than 11,000 women and children from nearly 50 nationalities are confined as family members of Islamic State (also known as ISIS) suspects. The Kurdish-led coalition controlling north
June 21, 2019 Commentary

Western Europe must repatriate its ISIS fighters and families

A woman walks with a child in Roj camp, which holds foreign wives and children of Islamic State (ISIS) members, in northeast Syria, September 2018. © 2018 Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images
May 14, 2019 News Release

Syria: Reveal Fate of Missing Victims of ISIS

Families Form Group to Seek Answers from Anti-ISIS Coalition

Images provided by families of their relatives who went missing in ISIS custody. © 2019 Human Rights Watch
March 6, 2019 News Release

Iraq: ISIS Child Suspects Arbitrarily Arrested, Tortured

Children Should Be Rehabilitated, Reintegrated

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February 22, 2019 News Release

Syria: Concerns for Civilians Escaping ISIS Holdout

Satellite Imagery Reveals Large-Scale Destruction of Buildings

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February 12, 2019 Report

Tunisia: Scant Help to Bring Home ISIS Members’ Children

200 Held in Squalid Camps and Prisons in Libya, Syria, Iraq

A woman walks with a child in Roj camp, which holds foreign wives and children of Islamic State (ISIS) members, in northeast Syria, September 2018. © 2018 Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images
February 5, 2019 Commentary

Bringing ISIS to Justice: Running Out of Time?

January 31, 2019 Commentary

It shouldn’t take Pink Floyd to rescue ISIS fighters’ abandoned children

Governments with nationals trapped in Syria should do what Roger Waters did when he saved Mahmud and Ayyub Ferreira

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December 13, 2018 Commentary

UN Review Should Help Children Caught in ISIS Conflict

View from hill overlooking Ain Issa displacement camp in Syria, May 2018. © Human Rights Watch
October 31, 2018 Report

US: Detainees Transferred from Syria to Iraq

ISIS Suspects Put at Risk of Torture, Unfair Trials

Rusafa Central Criminal Court in Baghdad.
September 27, 2018 News Release

Iraq: Secret Detention, No Recourse

Campaign of Enforced Disappearances

Members of the Iraqi National Security Service arrest a young man they suspect of being affiliated with ISIS in eastern Mosul on March 15, 2017. © 2017 Sam Tarling
September 12, 2018 Report

Iraq: Officials Threatening, Arresting Lawyers

Blocks Services for ISIS Suspects and Their Families

Mosul’s Civil Status Directorate. © 2018 Belkis Wille/Human Rights Watch
August 25, 2018 News Release

Syria: ISIS Holding Children Hostage

27 People Kidnapped During Attack on Village Still Held

Syrians inspect the site of a suicide attack in Sweida, Syria on Wednesday, July 25, 2018. © 2018 SANA via AP
August 19, 2018 Report

Iraq: Chilling Accounts of Torture, Deaths

Investigate Abuse During Interrogations in Mosul

Mahmoud said he was hung in the “bazoona” position at least six times while in detention, for hours. He said that at least four of those times, he lost consciousness before being taken down. Sometimes officers threw water at him before beating his back wi

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