Screening out Islamic State militants
Security forces return identification cards to civilian men after screening them at Hammam Alil camp.
Six months into the Mosul offensive, thousands of civilians are still fleeing the city, with a recent surge of up to 15,000 a day passing through Hamam Alil. That has raised the stakes of security screenings, which need to proceed quickly to avoid a bottleneck but also sensitively to prevent displaced Sunni Muslims from becoming alienated from the central government — dominated by rival Shiites — and at the same time stop militants from infiltrating displaced persons camps.
