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Syria: Kurdish forces fight to retake a prison from the Islamic State

2022-01-23T19:20:45.824Z


Daesh invaded the detention center on January 20 to release jihadists. Is this the great return of Daesh in Syria? The attack, which has been going on for almost four days around the prison in the Ghwayran district of the northeastern city of Hassakeh, is the largest since the fall of the Islamic State caliphate ( EI), end of 2019. See also For experts, the jihadist threat is growing This time, the jihadists no longer operate only from sleeper cells in Iraq and the


Is this the great return of Daesh in Syria?

The attack, which has been going on for almost four days around the prison in the Ghwayran district of the northeastern city of Hassakeh, is the largest since the fall of the Islamic State caliphate ( EI), end of 2019.

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For experts, the jihadist threat is growing

This time, the jihadists no longer operate only from sleeper cells in Iraq and the Syrian desert.

Their planned assault, based on two simultaneous explosions and local support among the Arab refugees of this mixed city (Arabs and Kurds), was launched Thursday evening by a hundred fighters, who attacked this prison held by Kurdish forces. , in an attempt to free other imprisoned jihadists.

Since then, despite the support of American troops engaged in the international anti-Daesh coalition, fighting has continued around this detention center, which houses 3,500 suspected members of ISIS, according to the Syrian Human Rights Organization. man (OSDH)…

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Source: lefigaro

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