At least 120 people have been killed in clashes between ISIS and the US-backed Kurdish SDF in northeast Syria, Al Jazeera reported Sunday.
The clashes are still ongoing and were touched off Thursday night by an ISIS attack on a prison in Hasakeh, Syria. The SDF initially said they thwarted the prison break but later said some inmates took over parts of the prison.
On Saturday, with US support, the SDF brought more fighters into Hasakeh to retake parts of the prison. Parts of Hasakeh are controlled by the Syrian government, and the governor of Hasakeh said about 4,000 civilians fled to those areas as the fighting escalated.
The SDF said Sunday that it recaptured about 104 prisoners, but it’s not clear how many escaped. According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 77 ISIS fighters, 39 Kurdish fighters, and seven civilians have been killed in the clashes.
The US has been giving the SDF air support in its fight against ISIS in Hasakeh. The clashes come amid intense scrutiny over the enormous number of civilian casualties during the US air war against ISIS in Iraq in Syria.
Finally getting to the reality. It started as EXTERNAL
attack to free up prisoners, The generic term ISIS is not good enough. This is hardly a prolisin, more a camp,
The question is — who attacked the prosoner camp, who is actually kept inside.
My bet is on Iraqi Sunni group, as probably most swept in ISIS were from Iraqi Sunni areas, There is a real question — what is the main reason for the camp? The only reason is to keep SDF US paid nercenaries ennsconced in Hassakah province, where US troups are still in the boorser between Iraq and Syria.
I thought the northeast Syria has been cleared off of ISIS by SDF a long time ago and only northwest has some terrorists left in Idlib area…! The only explanation is Turkey brought them to Northeast…!
They shouldn’t imprison isis followers who actually took up arms unless they r kids. Isis never showed anyone mercy so give them none
I’m surprised ISIS is still being funded.
Wait a —— second. I thought we “US Airstrikes Foil ISIS Prison Break,” as reported on 1/21/22. NYT reports today: “As U.S. Strikes Syria Prison Held by ISIS, Young Detainees Are Caught in Crossfire.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/23/world/middleeast/syria-prison-isis.html
The BBC goes further and reports the “young detainees” are actually “children!” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-60091586
Not only that, but they also say the prison is held by ISIS and 7 civilians dead–not 1. Someone needs to coordinate all the lies/disinformation in order for us to believe them.
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” – William J. Casey, CIA Director.