Qaisar Khamis, a football coach from Hit who lost both parents in circumstances connected to illness and ISIS violence, uses community football training to help young people affected by conflict build confidence, discipline, and social ties. The article recounts ISIS’s mass killing of members of the Bounmar tribe and cites estimates of hundreds killed, alongside UN findings that there are reasonable grounds to believe ISIS committed war crimes and crimes against humanity against the tribe. Players describe improvements in their confidence, conduct, and commitment through Khamis’s coaching. The initiative operates amid limited psychological support and continuing shortages in schools, sports facilities, and other services for people returning to the area. Khamis says recovery also requires uncovering the truth, recognizing victims, and preventing future atrocities.