Syria: IS attacks a prison and frees jihadists

The Islamic State (IS) group launched an assault on Thursday (January 20th) against a prison controlled by Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria, freeing an unknown number of jihadists, a Syrian NGO reported without reporting possible victims. immediately.

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A car bomb exploded at the entrance to the prison, one of the largest housing jihadists in Syria, and a second explosion occurred nearby before IS jihadists attacked the forces head-on Kurdish security forces guarding the penal establishment, indicated the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH).