BEIRUT - The United Nations said 62,000 people are amassed at the Al Hol refugee camp in the Hasakah region of eastern Syria on the border with Iraq, including 14,000 children under 12.



The refugees are civilians who fled from areas in southeastern Syria that were formerly controlled by ISIS. They fled between December and now from the area of Baghuz, between the Euphrates and the border with Iraq, where Kurdish-Syrian forces are still waiting for the evacuation of the last jihadist militants, their families, and an unspecified number of civilian hostages.