ISIL fighters flee jail as Syrian army clashes with Kurdish-led SDF

Syrian service tells Al Jazeera Arabic it is present successful implicit power of metropolis of al-Shaddadi successful northeast Syria.

The Syrian service has announced a curfew successful the metropolis of al-Shaddadi successful the country’s northeast aft the flight of ISIL (ISIS) fighters from the city’s situation amid clashes with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), according to the authorities quality agency, SANA.

The Syrian service told Al Jazeera Arabic connected Monday that it was present successful implicit power of the metropolis and the situation lodging suspected ISIL detainees arsenic its troops searched al-Shaddadi and its surrounding areas for the escaped fighters.

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The Syrian Operations Authority besides told SANA that power of the al-Aqtan situation and information facilities successful the metropolis northeast of Raqqa would beryllium assumed by the Ministry of Interior pursuing the operation, and claimed that the SDF had deliberately released ISIL members.

The service did not accidental however galore fighters had been released from the prison.

The SDF said successful a connection that it had mislaid power of the situation aft an onslaught by the army, a assertion that the subject has denied.

The Kurdish-led unit besides said 9 of its members were killed and 20 others wounded successful warring astir al-Aqtan.

The connection added that the United States-led conjugation against ISIL had not intervened contempt repeated calls to a adjacent conjugation base.

The curfew comes a time aft the Syrian authorities announced that the SDF had agreed to retreat from parts of Syria during a ceasefire deal, successful the astir important alteration successful favour of President Ahmed al-Sharaa aft the toppling of erstwhile President Bashar al-Assad successful 2024.

The SDF agreed connected Sunday to retreat from some Raqqa and Deir Az Zor, the determination of Syria’s main lipid fields and 2 Arab-majority provinces they had controlled for years.

SDF main commandant Mazloum Abdi (also known arsenic Mazloum Kobani) was acceptable to beryllium successful Damascus connected Monday to discuss the ceasefire deal.

The state of Hasakah, wherever al-Shaddadi is located, mostly remains nether SDF control, with its cardinal prisons besides holding detainees accused of being linked to ISIL, and a campy holding thousands of ISIL-linked prisoners.

ISIL was defeated successful Iraq successful 2017 and successful Syria 2 years later, but the group’s sleeper cells inactive transportation retired deadly attacks successful some countries.