News agencies and journalists have prioritised the stories of the radicalised, the violent and the extreme, as well as the paths of those that come out the other side. But how far has this focus had an impact on the situation on the ground?

Vera Mironova, Research Fellow at Harvard University and author of “From Freedom Fighters to Jihadists. Human Resources of Non-State Armed Groups”, discusses her frontline research of women and children trapped in Syrian refugee camps.

Award-winning journalist Lindsey Snell revisits the critically overcrowded refugee camp of al Hol in Northern-Syria and describes the impact of the recent Turkish invasion on the conditions of refugees and the foreign families who are held there.

Orlaith Minogue, Conflict and Humanitarian Advocacy Adviser for Save the Children, speaks of the urgency to repatriate any foreign children from the overcrowded refugee camps of al-Hawl and al-Roj in North Eastern Syria.

A grandmother challenges the Belgian government to bring her six grandchildren aged from 11 months to seven years back to Belgium from Syria. Between 2013 and 2014 her son Noureddine and his wife Tatiana, as well as her daughter Bouchra, and her son-in-law, flew to Syria to join militant groups with their young children. Less…

IOHR introduces the story of Ashfaq (Ash) and Mehfooza Khurshid a London family trying to find their 3-year-old grandson Salmaan amongst the chaos of the last ISIS stronghold in Syria. They have lost their son Haroon who died while fighting for a Jihadist group in Syria. The grandparents were in contact with his Canadian wife…