Josh Baker

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And they had very much lost contact with the outside world, really, while ISIS was sort of dominating their environment.

So if we fast forward a few years from that time period, President Trump was in office.

It was his first term.

And I remember rather clearly when President Trump at the time announced that the U.S.

had beaten ISIS.

What happened to the remaining people who were living in this so-called caliphate, the fighters or family members?

So, you know, if you imagine at the height of 2014, 2015, that's when the group is at the height of their power.

They control a massive territory.

Fast forward to 2019.

That so-called state, if you will, has been pushed into less than a square kilometre in a town called Baguz.

And it is very heavily bombed, shelled, pounded.

The sky above Barghuz coming alight as a coalition of nations seek to obliterate the darkness of Islamic State.

And out of the ashes of that emerged tens of thousands of people.

Their brutality has caused millions to leave their homes.

And nobody really knew what to do with them.

These were people who had been associated with ISIS.

Perhaps their family had taken them there or they'd been born inside it.

Or they were card-carrying members who had fought and, you know, had had family members die for the group.

Now, at that point, the women and children were put into sort of makeshift camps, if you will, and the men were put into quite horrific prisons.

And sort of they've largely been there ever since.

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