https://www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5106845/isis-syria-terrorism-detention-camps
Their son joined ISIS. Then they learned he had kids in a Syrian detention camp
Years after their son left the U.S. to join ISIS, a Minnesota couple learned they had two young grandsons trapped in a Syrian desert camp. Bringing them home was complicated — and took years.
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Their son joined ISIS. Then they learned he had kids in a Syrian detention camp
In a small apartment outside Minneapolis, I'm watching two brown-haired brothers, ages 7 and 9, on a couch playing chess. They're speaking Arabic sprinkled with English. They stare intently at the board, their little brows furrowed.
After a stretch of silence, the older boy moves one of his pieces. "Check," he announces with confidence.
"Smart move," says their grandfather, sitting nearby.
I'm impressed by their skills and focus. "How did you learn to play?" I ask. The grandfather puts my question to them in Arabic. The older boy responds: al-sijn. I wait for a translation.
"He learned it in the jail, he said," the grandfather tells me. His wife, their grandmother, nods. "In the jail," she says.
Sijn — jail — is a word these boys use with startling frequency. It is not a word you expect to be a regular part of a child's vocabulary, let alone uttered so matter-of-factly. But months before they came to Minnesota, these two boys were living, parent-less, in an enormous desert camp in Syria for relatives of ISIS militants. It is variously called a "displacement" or "detention" facility, but it is effectively a prison. And it was their home for five years — the only home the younger one really remembers. They were 2 and 4 when they arrived there.
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1. 단어
sprinkled with 간간이 섞다, 포함시키다
let alone uttered so matter-of-factly
- let alone: ~은 말할 것도 없고
- uttered so matter-of-factly: 그렇게 담담하게 말하는 것
displacement (제자리에서 쫓겨난) 이동
detention (특히 유치장·교도소에서의) 구금[구류]
2. 요약
Rescue children from ISIS-related detention to prevent them from becoming future members of ISIS