US shifts 7,000 ISIS prisoners from Syria
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The move comes as fighting intensifies between the Kurdish-led fighters and forces loyal to the government of President Ahmad al-Sharaa.
After meeting with the SDF’s commander, US’s Tom Barrack said all parties agreed upholding the truce is ‘essential’.
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Chaos around prisons holding ISIS detainees in Syria is highlighting security risks for U.S. forces in the region.
As many as 60 people, including 35 children, with connections to the UK are in Syrian prisons and camps now engulfed by fighting
Dr. Youssef Ibrahim Saloum, an expert on jihadist groups, told TML that many Iraqis may see the move as shifting a security burden from one arena to another without addressing its root causes US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Wednesday the launch of an operation to transfer thousands of detainees affiliated with the Islamic State group (ISIS) from northeastern Syria to Iraq,
"We've requested and demanded guarantees, but as always, the U.S. does not give any," the SDF's political co-chair told Newsweek.
A U.S. airstrike in northwest Syria kills al Qaeda leader Bilal Hasan al-Jasim, linked to the deaths of three Americans.
In the space of two days, the Syrian military, aided by tribal militia, has driven Kurdish forces from wide swathes of northern Syria that they have held for more than a decade.