Syrian Kurds arrest several in anti-ISIL operation at al-Hol camp

Campaign by nearly 5,000 of Kurdish-led forces follows spike in violence in sprawling camp in northeast Syria.

Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria have arrested nine people, including suspected members of ISIL (ISIS), during a security sweep in a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing families of fighters. The campaign by nearly 5,000 of the US-backed Kurdish-led forces came on the heel of a spike in violence in al-Hol camp, home to more than 60,000 people, many of them supporters or families of ISIL fighters. The forces, in a statement published on the Kurdish Hawar news agency, said they arrested nine people, including an Iraqi ISIL member who worked in recruitment.