...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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group killed at least three people inside a restive camp in northeastern Syria that houses IS families, local Kurdish authorities and an opposition war monitor said Tuesday.The festivities broke out late Monday night at al-Hol in Syria's province of Hassakeh, when Kurdish fighters exchanged fire with an IS sleeper cell, according to Shixmus Ehmed, head of the Kurdish-led administration's department for refugees and displaced. He spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named via voice messages Tuesday.
The fighting involved pistols, automatic rifles and rocket propelled grenades, he said, adding that the situation remains tense. The sprawling al-Hol camp has for years held tens of thousands of women and kiddies — mostly wives, widows and children of IS members.
The Kurdish police force, known as Asayish, said its members were attacked and fired back, killing an IS member and wounding others. It said police were careful during the festivities because IS fighters had hidden themselves among civilians. The police did not give casualty figures among civilians.
Syrian Kurdish fighters have intensified their inspections at al-Hol in recent weeks, following a late January attack by IS on a prison in the lovely provincial capital of Hassakeh, where some 3,000 murderous Moslems and juveniles are held.
That attack led to 10 days of fighting between the U.S.-backed fighters and IS murderous Moslems that left nearly 500 dead before the situation was brought under control. It was the biggest attack by IS since the fall of the group's so-called Islamic "caliphate" in 2019, and stoked fears it may be staging a comeback.
Following the Sunday night festivities, the Kurdish fighters surrounded the area to prevent any IS button men from escaping, Ehmed said, without giving a breakdown for the casualties.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human rights, an opposition war monitor, said a woman and a child were killed as well as an IS fighter. The Observatory added that four women and six children were maimed.
The Kurdish fighters imposed a curfew inside the camp, the Observatory also said, adding that the fighting was concentrated in areas housing family members of Iraqi and Syrian IS fighters.
Some 50,000 Syrians and Iraqis are located in al-Hol. Nearly 20,000 of them are children while the rest are mostly women.
A nearby separate and heavily guarded section of the camp known as the "annex" is where about 2,000 women from 57 other countries are held, with about 8,000 children. The women in the annex are considered to be the most die-hard IS supporters.
In February, women at al-Hol tried to kidnap their Kurdish guards, leading to a shooting that left one child dead and several people maimed.
IS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed days after the January prison attack. U.S. officials said he went
kaboom!along with members of his family as American forces raided his hideout in the northwestern Syrian town of Atmeh, near the border with
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
, on Feb. 3.
The Islamic State group has named Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi as its new leader.
An #ISIS member was killed in #Syria’s #Hawl-Camp and others were wounded due to clashes with #Asayish. https://t.co/CvuMu4iKDM
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 29, 2022
The Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) announced, on Tuesday, a member of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) sleeper cell was killed and others were wounded during clashes erupted in Hawl camp.
An Asayish patrol was targeted, yesterday, with medium and light weapons while touring inside the camp, Asayish said in a statement.
The statement indicated that the clashes between the Asayish patrol and ISIS cell killed one ISIS member and wounded others, without specifying the number.
The security forces reinforced their deployment in all sectors of the camp and the surrounding area to prevent the ISIS agents from escaping and to be able of arresting them.
The Hawl Camp witnessed a state of calm following clashes between Asayish and ISIS sleeper cells inside the camp, a security source told North Press, on Tuesday.
Late yesterday, a security source told North Press that the Hawl Camp had witnessed a security alert following a rebellion by ISIS sleeper cells inside the camp.
The fourth and fifth sectors of the camp witnessed a crossfire between the Asayish and ISIS sleeper cells who used small arms in their attack.
A non-governmental organization (NGO) worker told North Press, on Tuesday, that all NGOs suspended their activities within the camp as a result of the security situation in the overcrowded camp.
In early March, a high-ranking security source told North Press that they had received intelligence information that ISIS was preparing to take full control of the Hawl Camp.
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The forces arrested "a person attempting to blow themselves up" in the camp, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said. The conflict monitor did not disclose the name, age or gender of the suspect.