(Global News) Sitting in a dim room at a detention camp in northern Syria, Kimberly Polman was feeling vulnerable. ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had vowed to free female prisoners like herself, and she believed him.
“I take it seriously,” Polman said. “These people don’t play.”
She should know: the former British Columbia resident spent almost four years living under the Islamic State, until she and her husband were taken into custody nine months ago.
Now she is a detainee of the Kurdish forces, one of thousands in their custody because their own governments haven’t taken them back.
But what awaits Polman became even more uncertain this week, when Turkey launched an invasion of northern Syria.
