HASAKEH: Fighting raged in Syria for a fourth day on Sunday between US-backed Kurdish forces and fighters of the militant Islamic State (IS) group who have attacked captivity, killing 136 people including civilians, a war examiner said.
Further than 100 mutineers late on Thursday attacked the Kurdish- run Ghwayran jail in Hasakeh megacity to free fellow jihadists, in the most significant IS operation since its tone- declared caliphate was defeated in Syria nearly three times agone.
Violent fighting since also has seen the zealots free detainees and seize munitions stored at the jail, according to Britain- grounded Syrian Overlook for Human Rights, in what experts see as a bold IS attempt to regroup.
“ At least 84 IS members and 45 Kurdish fighters, including internal security forces, captivity guards and counter-terrorism forces, have been killed” outside and outside the captivity since the launch of the attack, the Overlook said.
Seven civilians have also failed in the fighting in the northeastern megacity, it added.
The battles continued on Sunday as the Kurdish- led Syrian Popular Forces (SDF), backed by coalition strikes, closed in on jihadist targets outside and outside the installation.
The SDF said in a statement its forces sealed off the area around the jail and that “ IS fighters located within the gates of the captivity can no longer escape”.
According to the Overlook, the SDF has secured the utmost of the area and importance of the installation itself with the exception of some cell blocks where holdout jihadists have yet to surrender.
A pressman in the megacity’s Ghwayran neighborhood reported the sound of heavy shelling in areas incontinently girding the jail, which houses at least suspected IS members.
The SDF stationed heavily in areas around the captivity where they carried out digging operations and used loudspeakers to call on holdout jihadists to surrender, the pressman said.
IS fighters “ are entering homes and killing people”, said a mercenary in his thirties who was fleeing on the bottom. “ It was a phenomenon that we made it out,” he said, carrying a child wrapped in a hair mask.
“ The situation is still veritably bad. After four days, violent clashes are still ongoing.”
IS has carried out regular attacks against Kurdish and government targets in Syria since the rump of its formerly-sprawling proto-state was overrun in March 2019.
