Day 1 can be seen here.
[Rudaw] 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) is using civilians in northeastern Syria (Rojava) as "human shields," the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Friday after the bully boy group attempted to break thousands of its affiliates out of a prison in the area.
The SDF thwarted a "new ISIS insurgence and escape attempt" of its members from Ghweran prison in Hasaka province late Thursday, head of the forces media office Farhad Shami said in a tweet.
The insurgence coincided with a boom-mobile explosion near the prison, blamed on ISIS sleeper cells.
The bully boyz infiltrated from areas surrounding the prison. The bully boyz who attacked Ghweran later fled to al-Zuhoor neighborhood and hid in civilian houses, the SDF said.
ISIS is "using civilians in al-Zuhoor neighborhood and some areas on the northern side of the prison as human shields, amid reports of neutralizing some of those who opposed the cells orders," the SDF said in a statement. The terror group had asked the civilians to leave their homes and seek refuge in other places.
The bully boyz clashed with the internal security forces (Asayish).
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Friday said at least 41 people - 20 security forces, 16 ISIS suspects and five civilians - have been killed so far.
However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things...
the Asayish on Friday afternoon confirmed the death of one of its members and the injury of seven others. Three non-combatants were killed, it added.
The Kurdish forces arrested two ISIS members that tried to escape the Ghweran prison.
The SDF said they arrested 89 ISIS suspects who were trying to break free from Ghweran in another "mass escape" on Friday morning. It also confirmed the killing of five suspects of the terror group.
Ghweran and al-Shaddadi prison in Hasaka hold an estimated number of 7,500 Syrian and foreign ISIS suspects, including children, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in 2020. Around 5,000 people are detained in Ghweran, which was formerly a school and is now controlled by the SDF.
| Al Ahram adds: |
More than 100 IS fighters using heavy machine guns and vehicles rigged with explosives attacked the Gweiran Prison in the northeastern city of Hassakeh where some 3,000 suspected IS gunnies are being held, according to a front man for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, Farhad Shami. He said seven U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters were killed and several others were maimed. At least 23 IS attackers were also among the dead, he said.
"This is the biggest attack not only in Syria but also in Iraq and the region,'' Shami said in reference to attacks carried out by IS since the bad boy groups were defeated in Syria in March 2019. "The prisoners include commanders and are among the most dangerous.''
The complex attack was mounted on Thursday evening and aimed to free fighters from the group incarcerated there. Syrian Kurdish-led forces who control the Gweiran Prison said prisoners inside the facility rioted simultaneously and tried to escape while a boom-mobile went off outside the prison and button men clashed with security forces.
The fighters were led by foreign bad boys, not Syrians, many of whom spoke in Iraqi dialect, Shami said.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, also known as SDF, said 89 gunnies who escaped were arrested. Another group of inmates staged a new escape attempt Friday, the SDF added.
The US-led coalition carried out an
...KABOOM!...
after reported casualties among the Syrian-led Kurdish forces late Thursday.
Shami said dozens of IS fighters had gathered earlier in a nearby neighbourhood and prepared for the attack.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitoring group, said at least 20 Kurdish security forces and prison guards were killed in the festivities, alongside six gunnies and five civilians. It described the attack as the most
A journalist with the Kurdish-run news agency Hawar was maimed during coverage of the festivities, the agency said.
| More from NPÀ Syria: |
An intra-fighting has erupted among ISIS prisoners inside the Guweiran prison where a group of ISIS prisoners killed 7 members tried to surrender to our forces, the SDF added.