'They almost killed my child': Women in Syria's Roj camp describe night of gunfire and fear

'They almost killed my child': Women in Syria's Roj camp describe night of gunfire and fear Submitted by Reem Aouir on Sun, 08/02/2026 - 13:58 Women detained in northeast Syria's Roj camp say bullets tore through tents housing children during a confrontation with Kurdish-led security forces A boy shelters from the rain with a plastic bag during a military operation at Camp Roj in Syria's Hasakah province, on 5 April 2025 (Delil Souleiman/AFP) Off Kurdish-led armed forces opened fire inside Syria's Roj camp on Friday evening, with bullets tearing through tents housing children, after several days of protests by women demanding better treatment inside the facility, according to multiple accounts shared with Middle East Eye. No one was reported killed or wounded. But women inside the camp, which holds thousands of foreign women and children, relatives of suspected Islamic State (IS) group fighters, described a night of chaos and terror that has left them and their children severely traumatised.