HASAKEH: Kurdish forces on Wednesday regained full control of captivity in northeast Syria where jihadists of the militant Islamic State group had been drilled up since attacking it six days before.
The brazen-faced IS jailbreak attempt and preceding clashes left further than 180 dead in the jihadist’s most high-profile military operation since the loss of their “ caliphate” nearly three times agone.
Ghwayran’s captivity in the megacity of Hasakeh held an estimated IS convicts when the original attack began on January 20 with snares-laden vehicles steered by self-murder bombers.
The Kurdish authorities have claimed no convicts escaped from the emulsion but the British- grounded Syrian Overlook for Human Rights monitoring group has said significant figures got down.
“ The entire captivity is under our control. and convicts are being transferred to a safe place,” said Nowruz Ahmed, a top functionary with the Kurdish- led Syrian Popular Forces (SDF).
Speaking during a press conference, she said digging operations in the area were still underway, adding that a-strong Kurdish- led force had taken part in sweats to regain the installation.
With the US and other foreign forces stepping in to support Kurdish elite units, the neighborhood around the captivity was secured and the besieged zealots inside the captivity started turning themselves in.
The SDF — the semi-autonomous Kurdish administration’s-facto army — had said that around IS convicts had surrendered.
The Overlook, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria, verified that the attack was over, after nearly six full days that turned the largest megacity in northeast Syria into a war zone.
Thousands of Hasakeh residers were forced to leave their homes after at least 100 IS fighters stormed the installation, in their biggest show of force in times. In one synagogue located at a safe distance from the chaos, hundreds of women and children were huddled together in the smelling downtime deep freeze.
“ We want to go back home,” said Maya, a 38- time-old mama trying in vain to pacify her youthful child, adding that “ there is no chuck, water or sugar then.” Fighting in and around the captivity since Thursday killed 181 people, including 124 IS jihadists, 50 Kurdish fighters, and seven civilians, according to the Overlook.
That death risk could rise, still, as Kurdish forces and medical services gain access to all corridors of the captivity following the end of the attack.
A stage-off gripped the captivity for days, with Kurdish forces and their IS foes apprehensive they faced either a massacre or addresses to end the fighting.
There were fears for further than 700 boys who were among those held in the installation.
Kurdish forces had cut off food and water to the jail for two days to press holdout jihadists to give themselves up, the Overlook said.
The SDF has been reticent to relate to addresses between them and IS fighters, and it remains unclear exactly what led to the end of the attack.
Overlook head Rami Abdel Rahman said a Syrian IS jihadist had negotiated with Kurdish forces to end the stage-off and secure medical care for wounded jihadists.
Since Monday, Kurdish forces had freed at least 32 captivity staff, some of whom appeared in videotape footage that IS had participated on social media after launching the attack.
Ghwayran is the captivity with the largest number of suspected IS members in Syria, and numerous, from Kurdish officers to Western spectators, have advised the jailbreak should serve as a wake-up call. Kurdish authorities say further than 50 ethnicities are represented in Kurdish- run incarcerations holding further than IS suspects.
“ This is a global problem that requires numerous nations to come together to develop an enduring long-term result,” the US-led coalition said in a statement following Wednesday’s advertisement.
“ The new incarcerations throughout Syria are a parentage ground” for IS, the coalition added, calling for thorough examinations into the circumstances behind the attack.
The Kurdish administration has long advised it doesn’t have the capacity to hold, let alone put on trial, all the IS fighters captured in times of operations.
