As its troops searched al-Shaddadi and its surrounding areas for the escaped fighters, the Syrian army announced to Al Jazeera Arabic on Monday that it was now in complete control of the city and the prison where suspected ISIL prisoners were kept.
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The Ministry of Interior would take control of the al-Aqtan prison and security facilities in the city northeast of Raqqa, according to the Syrian Operations Authority, who also claimed that the SDF had purposefully released ISIL members.
How many prisoners had been released from the prison, according to the army.
The SDF claimed in a statement that it had lost control of the prison as a result of an army attack, which the military has refuted.
In addition, the Kurdish-led organization reported that al-Aqtan fighting resulted in the deaths of nine of its members and the injuring of 20 others.
The statement further stated that despite numerous calls to a nearby coalition base, the US-led coalition against ISIL had not yet taken action.
The Syrian government announced the SDF’s intention to leave parts of Syria on the day after Bashar al-Assad was ousted in 2024, making the most significant change to President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
The SDF, which have control of Syria’s main oil fields and two Arab-majority provinces, agreed on Sunday to step down from both Raqqa and Deir Az Zor, which the group had previously agreed to control.
Mazloum Abdi, the SDF’s chief commander, was scheduled to visit Damascus on Monday to discuss the ceasefire agreement.
Hasakah, where al-Shaddadi is located, is still largely under the control of the SDF, with its central prisons housing detainees suspected of having links to ISIL, and a camp housing tens of thousands of prisoners suspected of being ISIL-linked.
Source: Aljazeera
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