Prison attacked in Syria: "The Islamic State organization is not dead, it is there solidly"

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Photo taken at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which houses suspected relatives of Islamic State (IS) fighters, in Hasakeh governorate, northeastern Syria, March 3, 2021. AFP - DELIL SOULEIMAN

By: Florent Guignard Follow

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Fighting between jihadists and Kurdish forces continues in Hassaké, in northeastern Syria, five days after an attack launched by the Islamic State group against a prison guarded by the Kurds.

Interview with Adel Bakawan, director of the French Center for Research on Iraq (CFRI).

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More than a hundred members of the Islamic State (IS)

organization stormed the Ghwayran prison

, one of the largest housing jihadists in Syria, on Thursday with truck bombs and heavy weapons.

The clashes have already left 166 dead.

The Kurds have been calling in vain for years for the repatriation of some 12,000 jihadists of more than 50 nationalities detained in their prisons.

Adel Bakawan is the author of 

Iraq, a century of bankruptcy

(Tallandier editions).

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