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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

SDF assumes complete control over Hasaka prison, 322 toes up

2022-01-31

[Rudaw] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Sunday announced that they have fully secured al-Sina'a prison in Hasaka, northeast Syria (Rojava), following a week-long standoff with 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....
(ISIS) group, with the large-scale conflict having killed at least 322 people.

"As part of the large-scale sweeping campaign launched by our forces against ISIS, we announce the end of the sweep campaign in al-Sina'a prison in Ghweran neighborhood of Hasaka, and the end of the last pockets in which ISIS forces of Evil were holed up in the [prison's] northern dormitories," the Kurdish-led force said in a statement.

The US-led Coalition's Special Operations Joint Task Force-Levant (SOJTF-Levant) on Sunday said in a tweet that the detainees "were relocated into an enhanced and hardened facility preventing further ISIS [ISIS] escape."

"This was a huge ISIS failure that ultimately sped up the clock to ensuring that the detainees are in a hardened facility from which they will never escape," Isaac Peltier, commander of SOJTF-Levant said.

Despite the SDF having declared previously, it said that 60 to 90 ISIS forces of Evil were resisting in the northern part of the prison. The Kurdish force had called for their safe surrender, promising "firm" implications in case of further resistance.

In light of the SDF's statement, the group also declared that they had arrested nine suspected ISIS members in the town of Hajin in Deir ez-Zor province.

According to the SDF, communication devices and documents were seized proving the member's intentions to carry out terrorist attacks in the future.

These developments come after the terror group’s major attack on the al-Sina'a prison in Hasaka on January 21. While the organization is fully devoid of territorial control, its daring attacks across Iraq and Syria are raising significant concern about its capabilities.

The terror group's failed incursion in the Hasaka prison has resulted in the deaths of 322 people according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). Among them are 246 ISIS members, 79 security forces (Asayish) and prison guards, and seven civilians.

An Nahar adds:

The death toll in fierce clashes since then rose to 332 as the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) found over 50 more bodies overnight in prison buildings and nearby areas, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The Britain-based group, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria, said that 246 jihadists, 79 Kurdish fighters and seven civilian had been killed so far in the IS assault and battles since.

"The newly discovered bodies were inside and outside the prison," Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Observatory, told AFP.

He said the death toll was likely to rise further "because there are dozens of people who are wounded, others who are still missing, and information about more casualties" on both sides.

The SDF announced they had recaptured the prison on Wednesday but intermittent clashes continued until Saturday between Kurdish fighters and jihadists near the jail.

On Saturday, an AFP correspondent saw a truck carrying away piles of bodies from an area near the prison, believed to be those of IS fighters. A bulldozer dumped more bodies onto the truck, which then headed to an unknown location.

Farhad Shami, who heads the SDF's media office, told AFP that the bodies would be buried in "remote, dedicated areas" under SDF control.

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