Isis fighters escape Syrian prison
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Kurdish forces leave IS camp
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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.
Chaos around prisons holding ISIS detainees in Syria is highlighting security risks for U.S. forces in the region.
The fate of over 50,000 ISIS prisoners has been of paramount concern to the United States since the collapse of the caliphate in 2018.
Western officials have described the prisoners as a 'terror army' in waiting, with concerns about where they will go if freed.