videoFierce fighting has been going on in Syria for days after jihadists from the terrorist organization IS attacked a prison in Hasaka on Thursday. Detainees managed to escape, parts of the prison were taken over. Dutch jihadists are also detained in Hasaka.
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America has now come to the aid of the soldiers of the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) with air strikes to retake the prison. The SDF has itself sent additional troops to Hasaka in northeastern Syria. The Kurdish military’s grip on the area in and around the prison would therefore become ‘ever stronger’. IS claims that 800 prisoners have escaped. Meanwhile, images of Kurdish guards captured by IS are appearing on the internet.
This is the first major attack by IS since the terror organization was defeated three years ago. At the moment, about 150 to 200 IS insurgents are said to have holed up in and around the prison.
car bomb
It started Thursday with a car bomb that went off near the gates of the prison. This gave detainees the opportunity to escape to the residential areas around the prison. At first, the SDF claimed to have repulsed the attack, but it was later admitted that Kurdish forces had lost control of parts of the prison and 17 of their people had been killed. According to the Kurds, 70 prisoners were killed.
The prison, the largest of its kind, houses thousands of suspects arrested after ISIS was defeated. Many of them have never been convicted, including minors among the prisoners. The number of foreign detainees is estimated at about two thousand to four thousand from about fifty countries, including the Netherlands.
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The Dutch, also scattered over other prisons in Syria, appear to have not yet said goodbye to their radical ideas, even though IS has been defeated in Syria. At the end of last year, for example, an interview with the Dutch jihadist was published Yago Riedijk, who spoke melancholy about his life in the now fallen caliphate, together with his British wife. He told how they baked cake as a family – and refused to condemn the beheadings of IS.
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