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SULAIMANI — Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
said on Tuesday (January 25) nine members of staff at the al-Sinaa prison who
had been taken hostage by Islamic State (ISIS) militants have been rescued.
The SDF Coordination and Military Ops
Center announced on Twitter the employees have been taken to a "safer point.”
The head of the SDF media center,
Farhad Shami, said on Saturday pro-ISIS media published a video which showed a
group who had been abducted by the militants on Thursday in al-Sinaa prison.
He confirmed the men in the video were
kitchen staff and stated the SDF had lost contact with them during the first
attack on the prison.
Kurdish forces have regained control of
a block of eight buildings in the prison, the coordination ops reported late on
Tuesday afternoon, using the hashtag, victory is approaching.
The SDF also announced they were
conducting clearing operations Ghweiran, where the prison is located, and
al-Zuhour, an adjacent neighborhood. At least 14 ISIS militants were killed in
the operations, the SDF said, including suicide bombers wearing explosive
belts.
They also stated an operation was carried
out at the bank of the Khabour River where three ISIS members were killed who
had planned to back the prison break-out
Farhad Shami posted an announcement last
night from the SDF media center calling on ISIS members in the prison to
surrender.
"We know you
have an internet connection and see your setbacks,” the post stated. "You are
completely surrounded by our forces and there is no way out.”
The SDF said
on Monday 300 ISIS members had surrendered to Kurdish forces seeking to regain
control of the prison.
Clashes in
the vicinity of al-Sinaa began on Thursday night, when three explosions struck
near the detention facility as part of a break-out attempt with sleeper cells.
(NRT Digital
Media)