This week on Please Explain, we're joined by The Age's investigations editor, Michael Bachelard, and Sydney Morning Herald photojournalist Kate Geraghty, who have just returned from Syria.

We'll get a run-down on the Australians in the al-Hawl refugee camp and speak to Kamalle Dabboussy, whose daughter Mariam is one of the Australian women in the camp who want to come home.

As the conflict simmers, we ask what's next for this embattled region?

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