The Mail on Sunday

The Return: Life After Isis

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Sky Documentar­ies, 9pm In northern Syria, run by the local Kurd authoritie­s, Camp Roj is a shanty town and temporary home to the women who were the ‘jihadi brides’ of Islamic State fighters until the collapse of the terrorist group.

While it’s easy, and entirely justified, to condemn them, Alba Sotorra’s film gives Briton Shamima Begum (far right) and the others the chance to explain themselves, and it’s very much worth watching to discover what makes them tick.

The charitable might call them misguided souls; what’s clear is that they’re full of self-pity and quick to assert their human rights, but have a lot less to say about the evil visited on so many innocents by their group. The one ray of light is a young Kurdish woman, Sevinaz, who dedicates herself to helping these women, whose husbands may well have killed her own countrymen.

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