The fall of former President Bashar Assad‘s regime in Syria creates a new wrinkle in a long-standing U.S. security concern: the thousands of detained Islamic State fighters held in prisons controlled ...
About 9,000 well-trained, battle-hardened IS fighters are spread across multiple prisons, the largest being al-Hasakah and al-Shaddadi. Hundreds were killed in a previous prison break attempt at ...
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About 9,000 well-trained, battle-hardened IS fighters are spread across multiple prisons, the largest being al-Hasakah and al-Shaddadi. Hundreds were killed in a previous prison break attempt at ...
TASS/. The use of the US air force to liquidate terrorists who escaped from a prison in the Syrian city of Al-Hasakah may entail casualties among civilians, Oleg Zhuravlev, deputy chief of the ...
TASS/. Kurdish units of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have regained control of the al-Sinaa prison in the Syrian city of al-Hasakah, having liquidated 175 terrorists hiding inside ...