SDF Raids Al-Hol As ISIS Seeks Resurgence

ISIS militants in SDF prisons constitute an 'army in waiting' and have been used by the US against resistance forces in the past

US and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are carrying out a security operation in Al-Hol Camp in the countryside of Hasakah, northeastern Syria, allegedly to pursue ISIS sleeper cells, North Press Agency (NPA) reported on 27 January.

The SDF’s Media Center announced the initiation of the third phase of “Operation Humanity and Security” after the SDF obtained confessions from detained ISIS operatives suggesting the group is planning an attack on the camp in cooperation with ISIS sleeper cells within it.

The Al-Hol Camp was established in 2019 after US and SDF forces defeated ISIS and occupied Syrian territory the extremist group had previously controlled. Many ISIS members, as well as their wives and children, have been held in the camp since that time.

Early on 16 January, ISIS launched a rocket attack on an SDF prison holding as many as 5,000 ISIS prisoners, triggering a mass breakout attempt.

Syria researcher Charles Lister wrote in Foreign Policy last week that ISIS is enjoying a resurgence and that 10,000 ISIS militants are detained within at least 20 makeshift prisons in northeastern Syria, constituting an ISIS “army in waiting” and its “next generation.”

The comments raised fears the US, which has supported ISIS in the past, may use ISIS militants to counter forces from the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), a coalition of Shia armed groups that seek to expel US forces from Syria and Iraq.

🔗Source: The Cradle

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To understand the situation better, one should be aware of a formerly classified DOD intelligence report written in 2012 that acknowledges the support of the opposition by western powers.

The US was supporting the opposition... identified to mainly be composed of Islamic extremists, including an Al-Qaeda offshoot, AQI.

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