Stranded in despair


A member of Kurdish security forces standing guard as women and children fill water containers at the al-Hol camp. — AFP

ALI is 12 and has spent half his life in what is essentially a prison camp for families linked to extremists in northeastern Syria.

His dreams are modest – he longs for a football, not freedom.

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