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Syria: a hundred jihadists arrested by Kurdish forces

2023-01-06T17:23:48.037Z


Kurdish forces in Syria announced on Friday January 6 that they had arrested around 100 jihadists during an operation that lasted a week...


Kurdish forces in Syria announced on Friday January 6 that they had arrested around 100 jihadists during a week-long operation against cells of the Islamic State group, after a deadly attack in the north of the country.

Six members of the Kurdish security forces and a jihadist were killed on December 26 in a failed assault claimed by IS against the headquarters of the Kurdish forces in Raqqa, which targeted a prison where jihadists are detained.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF, dominated by the Kurds) had subsequently declared a state of alert in the regions under their control in northern Syria and launched an operation to "

hunt down the cells

" of the IS.

In a statement on Friday, they said they had searched 55 villages and farms as well as “

vast portions of the Syrian-Iraqi border

”.

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Participation of the international coalition

The operation allowed "

the arrest of 154 wanted terrorists and criminals

", including 102 members of the IS, and to thwart attacks that the jihadist group planned to launch against the cities of Qamichli and Hassaké during the holidays. year, according to the press release.

The SDF indicated that the international anti-jihadist coalition led by the United States had taken part in the operation, which the coalition did not confirm.

Supported by this coalition, the FDS spearheaded the fight against IS, which was defeated in successive offensives, in 2017 in Iraq and in 2019 in neighboring Syria.

But despite the loss of its strongholds in these two countries, IS continues to claim attacks there.

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On December 30, twelve employees of an oil field in an area under the control of the Syrian regime were killed in an attack attributed to IS.

A Kurdish fighter died the same day in an ambush also attributed to the jihadist group.

Syria is fragmented by the war started in 2011. Bashar al-Assad's regime has taken over most of the territory, but Syrian Kurdish forces control large areas of the north and northeast of the country.

Source: lefigaro

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