QAMISHLI, Syria — Islamic State group militants in northern Syria launched a failed assault concentrating on a jail holding fellow jihadists in a conflict that killed six Kurdish fighters, native authorities and a battle monitor mentioned.
The Kurdish fighters have been killed within the assault on a safety complicated close to a jail with IS inmates in Raqa, the group’s former de facto capital in Syria, mentioned Farhad Shami, spokesperson for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
But “IS failed to attack the prison because our forces thwarted their assault,” he mentioned.
He confirmed the six deaths to AFP, including that safety forces killed a jihadist carrying an explosive belt and apprehended his confederate.
Britain-based battle monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, had earlier reported two jihadists killed.
The failed assault focused a Kurdish safety complicated, which features a navy intelligence jail housing jihadists, the monitor mentioned.
“The jihadists were targeting the military intelligence prison” housing tons of of jihadists, together with 200 high-level militants, mentioned Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Observatory.
SDF commander Mazloum Abdi mentioned in an announcement that “terrorist cells” had attacked “security and military buildings in the city.”
“The information we have from Raqa indicates that IS cells are preparing dangerous plots,” he added.
State of emergency
Kurdish-led authorities introduced a state of emergency in Raqa and have put the town on lockdown till additional discover, as safety forces search out jihadists at massive.
Security forces are nonetheless looking out the world to arrest members of the cell, spokesperson Shami mentioned.
IS claimed accountability for the assault, saying two of its fighters had launched it, certainly one of whom had escaped.
The group mentioned the assault got here to avenge “Muslim prisoners” and feminine kin of jihadists residing within the Kurdish-administered Al-Hol camp.
Al-Hol, residence to greater than 50,000 individuals, is the most important camp for displaced individuals who fled after the SDF led the battle that dislodged IS group fighters from the final scraps of their Syrian territory in 2019.
Among Al-Hol’s detainees are greater than 10,000 foreigners from dozens of nations.
The overcrowded camp can be residence to displaced Syrians, and Iraqi refugees.
This is essentially the most important jihadist assault on a jail since IS fighters launched their greatest assault in years in January, after they attacked the Ghwayran jail within the Kurdish-controlled metropolis of Hasakeh.
Hundreds have been killed within the assault that lasted for per week and aimed to free fellow jihadists.
Syria’s battle, which broke out in 2011, has killed near half one million individuals and spurred the most important conflict-induced displacement since World War II. — AFP
