Scorned By Middle Eastern Society The Children Of Islamic State Fighters Face An Uncertain Future

New arrivals at the Ain Issa camp in Syria for people displaced by fightings between the Syrian Democratic Forces and Islamic State militants. Photograph: Erik de Castro/Reuters

The Guardian: Scorned and stateless: children of Isis fighters face an uncertain future

Families of Isis militants are outcasts to their own society and unwanted by the countries of their foreign fathers.

In a corner of a teeming refugee camp, 40 miles north of Raqqa, a small group of women and children are kept alone. They mill together at the back of a blue building; blond and brown haired children darting in between blankets that their mothers have hung as doors across small, dank rooms. Others in the Ain Issa camp call them “the Daeshis”, meaning Islamic State families. No one wants to know them.

The women are widows of dead Isis fighters. All are foreigners, with futures more bleak than the 12,000 or so newly displaced of Syria and Iraq in the camp, or the many millions more victims of war and insurgency now living in tents across the Middle East.

They arrived with hordes that fled Raqqa from early May. Their faces, and those of their children, were distinctive from the local people, who soon gave them up to the Kurdish officials who run the camp. Families of vanquished jihadis who were thought to be of intelligence value were segregated and taken elsewhere. The broken families left behind are deemed to be of much less use.

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