The foreigners in Al-Hol camp include more than 6,500 children. That figure is from a week ago, Ahmi said, before the US-led Kurdish-backed Syrian Democratic Forces announced the end of the IS caliphate in the eastern village of Baghouz.

Tens of thousands of people have fled the shrinking jihadist bastion over the past few months. Women and children have been trucked north to Kurdish-held camps for the displaced like Al-Hol.