Decision to move IS prisons from Syria was an Iraqi request
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Hundreds of IS members escaped a prison amid clashes between Syrian government forces and the SDF, the country's main Kurdish-led force.
Chaos around prisons holding ISIS detainees in Syria is highlighting security risks for U.S. forces in the region.
Some 120 Islamic State terrorists escaped from a prison in northeastern Syria as Damascus’s forces wrestled for control of the detention camps from Kurdish militias.
Manhunt after 120 Islamic State members escape from Syrian prison amid clashes - Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces control more than a dozen prisons where some 9,000 IS members are held
While the SDF has been the main partner of the U.S. in Syria in the fight against IS, Ankara considers it to be a terrorist group because of its ties to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a Kurdish separatist group that has mounted a long-running insurgency in Turkey.
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