The assault occurred against a Kurdish forces controlled establishment in northeastern Syria, releasing an indeterminate number of jihadists, a Syrian NGO reported.
Le Monde with AFP
GHWAYRAN, one of the largest detention centers with jihadists in Syria, was attacked on Thursday, January 20, by Islamic state fighters (EI), who managed to release prisoners.
According to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH), which has a large network of sources in Syria, a trapped car exploded at the entrance of the prison, and a second explosion Nearby proceedings before Jihadists from the EI do not attack the Kurds security forces keeping the penitentiary establishment.
“A number of prisoners has managed to escape,” the NGO said, without specifying their number. It has not mentioned, in the immediate future, possible victims in this rare attack in the city of Hassaké, controlled by the Syrian Kurds.
Situation under control
Syrian democratic forces (FDS), dominated by Kurdish fighters and spearheads of the anti-EI struggle, confirmed the assault against Ghwayran prison, but not the escape of detainees.
“An attempt to escape from Daesh terrorists [an Arab acronym for designating the Hassaké prison was held after an explosion and explosion of a trapped car,” said the SDS. in a statement. “Daesh’s dormant cell members have arisen surrounding and confronted neighborhoods” Kurds, have they prosecuted.
FDS sent reinforcements to prison and blocked the sector, said OSDH. In another press release, a spokesman for the FDS, Ferhad Sahmi, said that “the situation inside the prison is now under control” and reports “intermittent clashes between Kurdish fighters and jihadists near the prison “. Aircraft of the United States international anti-dwelling coalition flew over the area and dropped from the enlightening rockets in the vicinity of the prison, according to the OSDH.
Sleeping cells
According to the Kurdish authorities, which control vast panels in northern Syria, some 12,000 jihadists of more than fifty nationalities are held in prisons under their control.
In the first line in the fight against the EI, the FDS, supported by the international coalition, have defeated in 2019 the jihadist group in Syria by chasing it with its last stronghold of Baghouz, in the province of Deir Ezzor (is ) Despite its defeat, the EI conducts deadly attacks, especially in the vast Syrian desert, which extends from the central province of Homs to that of Deir Ezzor, at the border with Iraq.
These attacks target the Syrian army and its allies as the Kurdish forces, long supported by Washington in their fight against the EI, which sowed terror in these two countries and perpetrated bloody attacks around the world. In Syria as in Iraq, the jihadist group retains dormant cells.
triggered in March 2011 by the repression of proprietary events, the war in Syria became complex over the years with the involvement of regional and international powers and the rise of jihadists. She did nearly half a million deaths according to the OSDH and moved millions of people.