ALEPPO: Two children die every week in Al-Hol, one of the overcrowded Syrian camps where families with suspected links to the Islamic State (IS) group are stranded, Save the Children said on Thursday.

The charity said many countries, including European Union states, were abandoning thousands of children in their desert limbo, vulnerable to violence, fires, malnutrition and illness.

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