Humanitarian crisis emerges as ISIS falls in northern Syria

A young Syrian boy, roughly 3 years old, hugs his mother as they wait to be transported after surrendering along with other women and children on the outskirts of Baghouz to al-Hol camp in Hasaka province. The boy was shot in the eye during fighting in Baghouz, and was among many others who escaped wounded from the ongoing battle between US and coalition-backed Syrian Defence Forces and ISIS.

Women and children relatives, who by and large expressed unwavering support for the Islamic State, wait to be registered at al-Hol refugee camp during the Islamic State's final days in Baghouz, Deir Ezzour province. Several thousand women and children arrived at the registration area of the camp in March 2019.

An aid worker holds up a lost child as thousands of women and children from Syria, Iraq, Russia, Bosnia, Finland, and other countries arrive at al-Hol refugee camp.

Mohammed Khalaf, 7, holds his little brother, Diyab, at the al-Hol refugee camp.

One-year-old Fatima looks at her mother as she pulls out a piece of bread. Severely malnourished, Fatima sits alongside her two siblings and mother, Mariam, right, from Kawkaz, Russia, shortly after arriving at the al-Hol refugee camp in March.

Several thousand women and children arrived at the registration area of al-Hol refugee camp in March.

Noor, 7, kisses her baby brother, Abdullah, one month old, as she watches over him in the reception area of al-Hol camp after coming from Baghouz with her mother in the Islamic State's final days in Baghouz, Deir Ezzour province.

Women and children who were among one of the last waves of families and sympathisers of ISIS fighters wait in the human corridor to be transferred to trucks after being searched by female fighters with the Syrian Defence Forces on the outskirts of Baghouz.

Fighters with the Syrian Defence Forces walk through the tent camp abandoned by ISIS militants only days before in Baghouz.