Syria: two Kurdish soldiers and a jihadist killed in clashes in the al-Hol camp
Kurdish forces patrol the al-Hol camp in northeast Syria on August 26, 2022. © Orhan Qereman/Reuters
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Two Kurdish fighters and a jihadist were killed on the night of Wednesday September 7 to Thursday September 8 during fighting in the al-Hol camp.
In northeast Syria, it is home to tens of thousands of family members of the Islamic State group.
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With our regional correspondent,
Paul Khalifeh
Fighting erupted as the US-backed, Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) carried out an operation in al-Hol.
This camp is home to more than 55,000
family members of jihadists
, including hundreds of Europeans.
Automatic weapons and grenades were used during this confrontation.
The SDF said a group of jihadists comprising two women and five men posing as women attacked Kurdish fighters who were carrying out searches in the camp.
Last month, the FDS carried out a major raid to try to dismantle the cells of the Islamic State group
which reign a climate of terror
in this camp located 10 kilometers from the border with Iraq.
A hundred suspects were arrested during this operation, decided after the murder of three refugees, accused by the jihadists of collaborating with the administrators of the camp.
Since the beginning of this year, around 30 people have been killed in al-Hol by suspected supporters of the Islamic State group.
In early September, the SDF freed four women from the camp who were found in tunnels, chained and tortured by jihadists.
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