F
rom inside the secrecy of her tent in a sprawling camp in northeast Syria, Sara, a European woman affiliated with Isis, furiously messages people across the world begging them to send her cash.
“I just need 15,000 dollars to escape to Turkey, Idlib or wherever,” she writes on an encrypted app in al-Hol, a squalid desert camp holding 65,000 people, including families who once lived in the caliphate.
“I already have $2,000,” she adds with a flick of desperation. “It’s a big amount I know, but if you can spare anything.”
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