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Kurdish Fighters Found Dead in Syria Jail Hit by IS


Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria on Friday found the bodies of 18 fellow fighters inside a prison that the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group attacked last week, a war monitor reported.

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said Wednesday that they had recaptured the sprawling complex in the city of Hasakeh following a January 20 IS jailbreak attempt that sparked days of festivities inside the facility and in surrounding areas.

But mop-up operations are still underway in the Ghwayran prison where Kurdish forces say dozens of jihadists remain holed up.

During a sweep on Friday, the SDF backed by Kurdish internal security forces "found the corpses of 18 fellow fighters killed by jihadists", the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The war monitor, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria, also reported that an overnight air strike near the jail, carried out by the US-led coalition battling IS, killed seven jihadists.

The corpse count since January 20 now stands at over 260, including around 180 IS jihadists, 73 members of Kurdish-led forces and seven civilians, according to the Observatory.

The hard boyz that remain inside the facility have barricaded themselves in "cellars that are difficult to target with air strikes or infiltrate on the ground," the Observatory said.

Kurdish forces "are looking to starve jihadists into surrendering", said Observatory head Rami Abdul Rahman, adding that those holding out were diehard IS followers.

An SDF official said around 60 IS fighters were holed up in a basement and a ground floor above it.

"We believe there are no minors among them," he told AFP on the condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to comment on the issue.

The jihadists have been given a deadline to surrender and if no progress is made they will be dealt with "firmly", he said, without specifying a time frame.

The Ghwayran jail assault was the most high-profile IS attack since the jihadists lost their "caliphate" nearly three years ago.

According to the SDF, around 3,500 inmates and IS attackers have surrendered to its forces since the start of operations to recapture the prison.
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