#AFP80Years: Journalist Roba El Husseini on covering the fall of the IS group’s ‘caliphate’ | AFP

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#AFP80Years: Journalist Roba El Husseini on covering the fall of the IS group's 'caliphate' | AFP

As part of our interview series to mark AFP’s 80th anniversary, journalist Roba El Husseini speaks of her reporting on the fall of the Islamic State group’s "caliphate" in Syria in 2019 and how she returned to find many of the same people in the Al-Hol refugee camp five years later. El Husseini has spent 8 years covering Syria and Lebanon and is currently AFP’s Baghdad deputy bureau chief.

"Nobody wanted to look after them, they were left there in limbo," says El Husseini.

AFP is one of the world’s largest news agencies, with more than 1,700 journalists working in 150 countries. To mark our anniversary, we’re turning our cameras on our own journalists. They will tell you about the work they do, through their most memorable stories. Some covered the war in Ukraine, documented the beginning of a global pandemic, interviewed world leaders or reported on deforestation in the Amazon. Many have risked their lives several times. They did it all with one goal in mind: to provide the world with impartial and verified information.

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