Beirut, Lebanon – After almost a week of clashes with ISIL fighters, residents and Kurdish-led military personnel in the northeastern Syrian Hassakeh province celebrated a victory on Wednesday.
Six days ago, ISIL launched an attempt to free some 3,500 of its fighters held in Al-Sina’a prison, one of the largest in the Ghuwayran region. ISIL fighters stormed the prison in one of the most ambitious attacks since the fall of ISIL’s so-called caliphate to US-backed coalition forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in late 2019.
