Sins of the fathers: Children of IS left to rot in Syrian camp

Five years after US and Kurdish forces declared an end to the Islamic State group's "caliphate", thousands linked to the jihadists remain trapped in a tinderbox of deprivation and violence.

Squashed between surveillance towers and western-backed Kurdish guards, more than 40,000 people – half of them children – live cut off from the outside world in the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria.