(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 190 women and children have been freed from the deserted Kurdish-held Al-Hol camp in northeastern Hasaka province over a tribal mediation, local activists said Thursday.
The freed families headed their homes in the village of Shaafa in the Albukamal region near the Iraqi border.
The US-led Syrian Democratic Forces are holding tens of thousands of civilians and ISIS (Daesh) relatives in camps for the displaced.
Activists say most of the families have no ties to ISIS.
About 300 families have left the overcrowded al-Hol camp to Deir Ezzor province in three months.
The United Nations said the Al-Hol camp's population stood at around 70,000 people.
These included more than 30,000 Iraqis, some 28,000 Syrians and over 10,000 foreign nationals, many of them relatives of alleged militant fighters being held in detention.
IS fighters overran large swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq in 2014, running a brutal proto-state before their territorial defeat in March last year.
After years of fighting IS, Syria's Kurds hold thousands of foreigners linked to IS in their custody.
These include thousands of foreign women and children, the majority in the camp of Al-Hol.
Zaman A Wasl
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