Hateful children's faces: The IS youth from Sector 6 (World 2026, by Ann Guenter) - Swiss Press Award
Ann Guenter
Hasserfüllte Kindergesichter: der IS-Nachwuchs aus Sektor 6 (1)
Hasserfüllte Kindergesichter: der IS-Nachwuchs aus Sektor 6
Photo / World
2026
Ann Guenter
When Islamists overthrew Bashar al-Assad in Damascus in December 1925, the foreign women in Sector 6 cheered. In the al-Hol camp in northern Syria, women from 42 nations are interned because they traveled to join the "Islamic State" ten years earlier. Today, they live according to the terrorist organization's Sharia law, and a new generation has grown up in the mini-caliphate. A visit raises questions.
