‘What they were doing with ISIS, they’re still doing. Killing, stealing, burning tents, and especially in the foreign families’ section, which is the most dangerous and where no one can enter on foot,” Sarah Derik tells me as we sit in her office at the Al-Hawl refugees camp in northern Syria.
It is a cold and rainy March day. Outside, the rain is battering the canvas of the expanse of tents that house the camp’s inmates. Every so often, a woman in full black Islamic niqab dress can be seen making her way quickly from one tent to another.
