Yesterday’s events can be seen here.
[Rudaw] The corpse count of the Ghweran prison break has reached 166, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Tuesday, noting that the monitor asserts the toll to be higher. The SDF on Tuesday said that 550 ISIS fighters had surrendered themselves to the force, noting that they have also controlled a block of buildings inside the Ghweran prison.
Kurdish authorities in Rojava imposed a state of emergency in Hasaka on Sunday after seven non-combatants were killed in the crossfire.
Thousands of people are living in dire conditions and makeshift dormitories after fleeing their homes in northeast Syria (Rojava) due to ongoing festivities between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) as the terror group battles to retake control of a prison housing its members and affiliates in the Hasaka province for the sixth day on Tuesday.
Thousands of people have been displaced from their homes due to the armed conflict in Hasaka’s Ghweran neighborhood since Thursday, where hundreds of ISIS fighters broke into al-Sina’a prison in the area, attempting to free the terror group’s turbans held in the detention center.
The United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Sunday said that 45,000 people have been displaced from their homes because of the violence.
However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
the SDF-affiliated Rojava Information Center questioned this figure on Monday, citing information released by the UN Humanitarian Needs Assessment Programme to suggest that the number of those displaced by the fighting in Hasaka was considerably lower, estimating a figure of 6,000.
Rudaw English reached out to the OCHA to clarify the number but has not yet received a response.
"ISIS [Arabic acronym for ISIS] entered our houses at five in the morning. They said "all of you go out." We don’t want anything, we want safety," one of the displaced residents, Shekha Miziyen, told Rudaw’s Barzan Farman from Hasaka on Monday.
Another displaced local described the situation as "really bad."
More than two hundred ISIS fighters broke into al-Sina’a prison, known to locals as Ghweran prison, on Thursday night, while hundreds of fighters inside the detention facility staged a riot, smashing walls and burning oil storage facilities.
The turbans infiltrated the prison from its surrounding areas and later fled to the nearby al-Zuhoor neighborhood where they hid in civilian houses. The SDF on Friday said that ISIS was using civilians in the surrounding area as "human shields."
US-backed Kurdish forces tightened the noose around armed jihadists hunkering down inside a Syrian prison Tuesday, with both sides facing a bloodbath or talks to end the five-day-old standoff.
Around 100 Islamic State fighters attacked Ghwayran prison in the northeastern city of Hasakeh on January 20, in their biggest military operation since their "caliphate" was defeated in 2019.
The ensuing festivities with the Kurdish forces running northeastern Syria have left more than 160 people dead, including 45 in Kurdish ranks, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Some of the estimated 3,500 IS prisoners inside the facility have already been bused out to other detention centres in recent hours but it was unclear how many remained holed up inside Ghwayran.
Some of the hundreds of minors detained in the prison were transferred on Monday, the Observatory said.
"If there is no deal for a swap, there will be a massacre, hundreds of people will be killed," Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
The Syrian Democratic Forces, the Kurdish administration's de-facto army, have not confirmed reports that several prison guards were being held by IS fighters.
SDF forces operating with air support from the US-led coalition present in the region have deployed elite units and armoured vehicles in and around the converted school that became one of the world's largest IS prisons.
An assault has looked imminent since early Monday but the Observatory said Kurdish forces were reluctant to move in due to the presence of hostages inside.
The SDF is counting on the besieged jihadist fighters running out of ammunition and supplies, Abdel Rahman said.
He said talks were taking place for some of the Kurdish forces and prison staff trapped inside to be freed in exchange for medical treatment for maimed jihadist fighters.
The Observatory put the number of hostages held inside the prison at 27 with around 40 people whose whereabouts are unknown.
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#BREAKING/#North_Press #SDF announces the release of 6 employees of al-Sina'a prison in #Syria's #Hasakah bringing the total number to 23. pic.twitter.com/RIa2xojzGi
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In desperate attempts, two #ISIS members attacked SDF fighters and the latter kill them in #Syria's #Hasakah. @cmoc_sdf @coalition @OIRSpox @CJTFOIR https://t.co/3cY8W6wuac
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The SDF managed to capture #ISIS members who attacked a former's checkpoint in Shaddadi town, south of #Hasakah, northeast #Syria. @cmoc_sdf @coalition @OIRSpox @CJTFOIR https://t.co/wfK3wYKfLa
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North Press correspondent: Three members of #ISIS sleeper cells arrested in Guweiran neighborhood in #Syria’s #Hasakah pic.twitter.com/kSZGr0FIjo