Al-Hol is a sprawling tent city housing around 60,000 people, mainly women and children displaced by the US-backed battle to expel the Islamic State group from war-torn Syria. Among them are thousands of children of foreign mothers who travelled to Syria to be the wives of IS jihadists
At home in the Finnish capital, Ilona Taimela scrolls through hundreds of WhatsApp chats with her former pupils – pictures of animals, maths sums and simple sentences in English and Finnish.
At home in the Finnish capital, Ilona Taimela scrolls through hundreds of WhatsApp chats with her former pupils –- pictures of animals, maths sums and simple sentences in English and Finnish.