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Flesh and Blood | AFP

July 16, 2019July 11, 2021 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here July 16, 2019]

Her dark hair was pulled back by a white scrunchie and she had chipped pink polish on her nails. Like any teenager, I thought. But the words she spoke were as far from a carefree teenagedom as you could get.

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In Iraq, minority children haunted by ghosts of IS captivity | AFP

July 14, 2019July 15, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here July 14, 2019]

Khanke Displacement Camp (Iraq) (AFP) – Brainwashed and broken, the Islamic State group’s youngest victims are struggling to recover from years of jihadist captivity as they return to their own traumatised minority communities in Iraq.

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Agony of Yazidi women torn between IS kids, or return home | AFP

July 14, 2019July 15, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here July 14, 2019]

Baadre (Iraq) (AFP) – Freed after years in jihadist captivity, Jihan faced an agonising ultimatum: abandon her three small children fathered by an Islamic State fighter or risk being shunned by her community.

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Born under IS, sick Iraqi children left undocumented, untreated | AFP

May 16, 2019May 17, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here May 16, 2019]

Laylan (Iraq) (AFP) – No documents? No doctor. Without state-issued IDs, Iraqi mothers struggle to have children born under the now-defeated Islamic State group treated for conditions ranging from asthma to epilepsy.

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In Syria, families flee IS holdout to dust and desperation | AFP

February 14, 2019February 24, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on February 14, 2019]

The cry echoed across the chalk-dry Syrian plain: “Water!” Within seconds, the truck carrying a few dozen bottles was emptied by parched refugees who had spent the night out in the open.

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In eastern Syria, the infants of a dying IS ‘caliphate’ | AFP

February 12, 2019February 24, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on February 12, 2019]

They were born in a “state” that no longer exists, most to fathers who are dead and mothers whose countries don’t want them back. These are the children pouring out of Baghouz.

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Fleeing IS holdout, French women say foreigners still inside | AFP

February 11, 2019February 24, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on February 11, 2019]

Two French women who fled the Islamic State group’s last pocket in Syria told AFP on Monday more foreigners were trapped inside, barred from leaving by Iraqi jihadists.
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Barely alive after IS, Syrian babies haunted by malnutrition | AFP

February 8, 2019February 24, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here February 8, 2019]

They survived the Islamic State group’s crumbling “caliphate” by a thread, but skeletal babies streaming into this displacement camp in northeastern Syria now face a race against malnutrition.

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HRW warns against secret repatriations from Syria | ِِAFP

February 7, 2019February 24, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on February 7, 2019]

Any transfers of suspected foreign jihadists and their relatives out of Syria should be transparent, Human Rights Watch told AFP, as camps in the northeast fill with families of different nationalities.

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Syrians in ex-rebel zones struggle after aid groups withdraw | AFP

October 8, 2018October 8, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here October 8, 2018]

Beirut (AFP) – Tens of thousands of Syrians in areas recaptured by government troops this year remain starved of humanitarian aid, with the relief agencies helping them for years now unable to reach them.

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