IS women tell the stories of their deceit calling for going back

Nasiba Al-Omrany , a 13 year-old Moroccan girl never hesitate to unveil her face in a minute for the first time for 5 years – the thing she feared to do in the area under IS control – to be filmed in front of the camera and appeal to the government of her country to take her and her brothers back after the death of their father in Syrian war.

Nasiba, with two of her brothers, her elder sister and newborn baby girl arrived to Al-Hol camp east of  Hassaka city 4 months ago

. They came from Al-Baghouz town east of Deir Ez-Zour, IS last stronghold after it had been defeated by the International Coalition-backed  Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)  in March 23.

When she was about to go for a bottle of water, Nasiba, the Moroccan girl who was in the private section of IS families in the camp, unlike other IS foreign wives who refused to do that, agreed to talk to North Press.

Without mentioning why, Nasiba refused to talk in the open, so we headed to one of the offices of the camp where she didn’t hesitate to unveil her face and talk about her coming to Syria in detail.

Nasiba came to Syria with her parents and her five brothers and sisters after their parents deceived them saying they will go on a tour to Turkey, as she expressed. 

The girl coming from Tétouan city in Morocco, tells the story of coming to Syria saying that: “I was studying in the fourth class when my father said that we will go on a tour to Turkey. Maysa, my elder sister and me refused, but my mother told me that she won’t be back to Morocco again.”

“when we arrived, we stayed for few days in a city (she didn’t mention its name) before moving to Istanbul, the intelligence arrested us and prevented us from going to Gaziantep, then a smuggler came and took us to Aleppo in Syria.” She added.

After many days moving between Minbij and Tabqa, Nasiba’s family settled in Raqqa city (IS so-called capital in 2014), pointing out that her father and elder brother called Abdullah (13 years old) killed in a raid in Raqqa two months after they had come. Before SDF sieged Raqqa in early 2017, Nasiba moved with her family to Hajin town eastern countryside of Deir Ez-Zour, after that, they moved to Sousa, Sha’afa and at last, Al-Baghouz villages.

About the reason of their stay with IS, Nasiba said: “We didn’t have money to escape, smugglers want a lot of money to take us out.”

Nasiba’s mother also killed during the clashes between the SDF and IS militants in the last SDF campaign against Al-Baghouz – IS last stronghold -. After two days of the death her mother, Nasiba went to SDF controlled area.

The girl stated that she contacted with her grandmother in Morocco in order to go back to her homeland saying that: “My grandmother told me that we must try to go back, but we don’t know how to”.

“All I want is to go back to my country and complete my study.” Said Nasiba at the end of her interview.

S’adiya Akram, the Uzbekistani young girl who came to Syria with her family 6  years ago, said to North Press: “Abdulbary, my elder brother who joined IS after he was deluded through the internet while he was working in Russia, persuaded us to come to Syria.”

S’adiya stated that a short period after their coming to Syria, they moved to Iraq with a request from Abo Baker Al-Baghdadi, the leader of IS who issued instructions about moving foreign Uzbekistani and Azerbaijani families to Iraq, as she said.

The young girl who came from Andijan city in Uzbekistan, denied her family’s contact with the organization, they recognized “its false truth” after her father and two of her brothers had been killed by them for being (the Leavers), as she said.

“The organization killed my dearest father during his attempt to escape from the area under IS control three years ago. After that, they killed my brother, Abdulaziz a year and half a year ago. At last, they killed my elder brother, Abdulbary because his father was a member with (the Leavers).” She followed.

S’adiya regretted her coming to Syria saying that: ” I don’t want anybody to be deceived like us with IS if they came back again. I don’t want anybody to believe them because they are unjust, they put kids in jail and kill men for nothing.”

The young girl says that she wants to go back to her country appealing to her government: “We are so tired here, we want to go back quickly.”

When she was asked If her relatives know that she is here or not, she said: “I don’t think they know, the last time I contacted them, was three years ago and at that time I told them that we are in Russia.”

In turn, 23-year-old Fatima Makimdova who came from Russian Dagestan Republic, didn’t hide her deceit by her husband who was killed by IS in Al-Mayadeen city east of Dei Ez-Zour two years ago, while he was trying to escape from IS controlled area after he discovered that its objectives was hollow, as she said.

Fatima who spent 5 years in the organization’s area, told North Press that she contacted with her family to get her out of IS area after the killing of her husband saying that: “My parents came to Syria and we tried to escape but we failed and IS took all the money we had, another thing is that we didn’t recognize the way to SDF areas.”

Makimdova mentioned the segregation did by IS between its Syrian and Iraqi fighters and the foreigners, “Iraqi Emirs had everything, they were eating best kinds of food, they used to give us wheat to bake bread on firewood, they betrayed us and they were unjust.” She added.

A Dagestan young girl who settled in the camp 4 months ago, said that after she came out of Al-Baghouz, she has no information about her father whether he killed or jailed.

Makimdova said that all what she wants is to go back to her country and to her house in order to open a new page after her suffering from raid, fear and hunger.

“I don’t want to die here, I want to die in my country.” Fatima’s mother is sitting inside her old tent with one of Dagestan woman and shaking her daughter’s baby, said to North Press.

The other Dagestan citizen who is 60 years old said that her husband killed in Kobani by a car bomb.

According to official records of the directorate of Al-Hol camp, there are about 300 IS orphan kids in the camp, 113 of them are being taken care by humanitarian organizations inside the camp and the rest have been adopted by IS families.

It is reported that more than 250 kids in Al-Hol camp lost their lives because of malnutrition and health care, as Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated at the beginning of the year.

There are in the camp 11.000 IS wives from different nationalities where the Syrian and Iraqi are at the forefront, then, those who came from Russia, Central Asia and Africa, as the directorate of the camp stated.

Foreign women and kids are put in private section in Al-Hol camp under high security guard posed by SDF. Also, women who wants to go to the markets, they are accompanied by Internal Security Forces (Asayesh).

Self-Administration was able to return hundreds of IS kids and women to their own countries after a deal with their governments, while there are many countries refused to take back their citizens amid calls for international court to judge thousands of IS militants kept in self-Administration’s jails in north and east of Syria.

Among thousands of IS wives and families beside hundreds of orphan kids, the camp contains 73.000 refugees and emigrants.