...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....
(ISIS
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...) fighter died and several others were maimed in an armed clash with women security guards from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) at al-Hol camp in the northeast Syrian province of Hasaka on Monday. About 50 others were detained as a result of the clash, according to local sources.
"A group of women of the Organization [ISIS] inside the camp who were secretly working as Hisba, tried to whip a woman," reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Monday.
Security guard (Asayesh) intervention in the attempted whipping led to an armed clash between both sides, SOHR added, in which the ISIS-affiliated women used light weaponry against the camp guards.
Hisba refers to ISIS’
"Two women from the Organization’s families attempted to assassinate an Iraqi refugee, by stabbing him in the abdomen ... which seriously injured him," the UK-based watchdog also said of Monday’s violence.
SDF-affiliated Hawar News Agency (ANHA) reported that one ISIS woman was killed and seven others injured in the festivities, adding that the subsequent Asayesh crackdown led to the arrest of at least 50 ISIS-affiliated women.
The incident gives weight to warnings by the Kurdish-led SDF and international organizations that the camp has become an incubator for ISIS ideology, at a time when group members are known to be reorganizing in parts of both Syria and Iraq.
It also amplifies the SDF’s concerns that it does not possess the manpower or resources to indefinitely hold thousands of ISIS members at the camp. The Kurdish-led forces have called repeatedly for international assistance to try suspected fighters, while they and US officials have implored foreign governments to repatriate their nationals - a call to which few have responded.
The group additionally faces pressure from
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, which has threatened incursions into SDF-controlled territory outside of its joint operation agreement with the US. Kurdish leaders in northeast Syria have said military pressure from Turkey would force them to put counter-ISIS efforts on the backburner in order to counter a
Unnamed sources told pro-SDF North Press Agency (NPA) that 40 ISIS women were detained after the skirmish. The NPA dedeucted based on videos of the incident that the attackers were non-Syrians.
The notorious al-Hol camp is home to about 70,000 people, including more than 11,000 family members of ISIS
Attacks against Kurdish Asayesh and air workers have taken place at the camp in the past including the stabbing of a camp guard by a female ISIS prisoner in July.