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So this, did you see the story about Binance routing like 1.4 billion?
Absolutely incredible.
Anyway, so Al-Hol detention camp.
It has been in place since like 2016.
It's been housing ISIS militants, ISIS supporters, the family members of ISIS supporters, but then also thousands of just totally innocent people who happen to live in the region who were trying to escape ISIS and got swept up during these operations.
So at one point, this camp held over 70,000 people.
The conditions were horrific.
And it also seemed like there was just no plan for what to do with a lot of people in the camp because a lot of them were from...
you know, Europe and other places and countries that absolutely did not want to take them back because they were radicalized ISIS people.
It was a policy and humanitarian disaster.
This all changed in January.
The new Syrian government launched an offensive against the Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed forces that had been guarding the camp.
That led to this chaos, the mass escape.
And as of this past Sunday, the Al-Hol camp has been fully evacuated and shut down.
So the good news is that just before that happened, the U.S.
moved about 6,000 prisoners from Al-Hol to other prisons in Iraq.
But there are almost certainly hundreds, if not thousands, of dangerous, radicalized ISIS members or fans just kind of hanging out in parts of Syria.