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About 800 women and their children, militants all of them from the Islamic State (ISIS), fled in the last hours of the Ain Issa refugee camp in northern Syria, taking advantage of the offensive that the Turkish army maintains in that region, according to Kurdish officials in the area reported.

The Kurdish militias withdrew from the site before the advance of troops loyal to Ankara, mostly Syrian militiamen.

The director of the Syrian Human Rights Observatory (ODHS), Rami Abdulrahman, confirmed the incident and said that "anarchy" had taken over the enclosure whose surroundings were bombarded by Turkish aviation.

The Ain Issa camp was home to more than 13,000 displaced , including about a thousand families linked to the extremist group.

Some NGOs working in that area - located north of Raqqa - say that the complex is empty and that the presence of hooded patrols has been detected patrolling the surroundings. Arab media said that at least on a local highway, ISIS flags have begun to appear.

The US military located near Ain Issa evacuated their positions following the policy of Washington, whose president, Donald Trump, granted de facto permission that allowed his counterpart Tayyip Erdogan to launch this offensive.

Experts such as Anne Speckhard, director of the International Center for the Study of Extremist Violence , who interviewed hundreds of ISIS militant women held in the camps controlled by Kurdish uniforms, including Ain Issa, had warned that in the latter precinct was still active radical nucleus of women who simply thought that the Islamic State had not been defeated but had decreed a "hudna" (truce), in the style of the medieval era in which that ideology lives to reinforce its positions.

"During the battle of Baghouz ( the last stronghold that ISIS controlled ) their husbands sent them to the camps and told them to wait for the return of the caliphate," Speckhard said in a text he wrote recently.

The members of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces had already warned on Saturday that the custody of the prisoners of the extremist group was no longer a priority in the circumstances they face.

Fatima, one of the women injured in the Turkish attack on Ras al-Ain, in the hospital.

"You cannot expect us to take care of your terrorist citizens as long as you do not care that our children are killed , our people are displaced and our region suffers from ethnic cleansing," said one of his spokesmen, Mustafa Bali in a tweet.

The same character even questioned the supposed "interest" of the West regarding the Islamic State but added: " We will all suffer the consequences very soon , but this time there will be no one to do the job for you."

Those responsible for Ain Issa also released a statement in which they had the same effect, describing what happened as a "catastrophe that will not only affect Syria, but will knock at your doors as soon as things get out of control."

Protests against the Turkish invasion are multiplying throughout the territory of neighboring Iraqi Kurdistan . This Sunday hundreds of people gathered in front of the US consulate carrying signs like the one that says "The only friends of the Kurds are the mountains."

" They have slaughtered us throughout history . We are desperate and angry at the same time," said Karzan Luqman, 20, quoted by Kurdish Rudaw.

Another of the protesters, a native of the Syrian city of Qamishli, Ahamd Said, offered Trump $ 60 for incentivizing his attention , given that according to this citizen, "economic benefit" is the only thing that motivates the American president.

Indignation

Another large contingent of citizens of Dohuk approached a local hospital to donate blood for assistance centers in the neighboring territory.

The Kurds, both those in Syria and those in Iraq, cannot hide the outrage generated by the decision of the US president to whom they direct all kinds of epithets.

"Trump? That one should have grabbed ISIS," said Mahmud Harwan, a Dohuk neighbor who attended as dozens of his friends the images of shelling and ravages on the other side of the border that dominate every day television televisions Kurdistan.

Another representative of the Kurdish militias in Syria, Redur Khalil, also recalled on Saturday the "large number of friends" his troops had "in the days of ISIS" and how those same "friends betrayed us, stabbed us in the back."

Some European nations such as Germany and France have already interrupted their arms exports to Turkey in response to Ankara's action in Syrian territory.

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