WHILE the world watched agog as Assad's regime came crashing down, it took me back to when I was driving through fields of dry wheat and oil rigs in the east of Syria to reach a camp holding Britain's most infamous jihadi bride, Shamima Begum.
What happens in the coming weeks could have a huge effect on her and tens of thousands more former Isis members.
Back in 2022, the mostly Kurdish Syrian Defence Force guarded the camps, which were made up of endless rows of dusty UN white tents behind wire mesh fences. The only thing stopping hordes of former Islamists from leaving was the Kurds, backed by the regional presence of the US military.
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