ISIS inmates in Syria’s northeast pose threat if not tried, Peshmerga to North Press
ERBIL, KRG, Iraq (North Press) – Having Islamic State Organization (ISIS) members in Syria’s northeast without trying them is a major danger particularly after it has followed new methods in waging attacks, the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Peshmerga, Jabar Yawar, said on Monday.
On January 20, clashes between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and ISIS members began after a jailbreak attempt by ISIS sleeper cells which coincided with three explosions in an attempt to escape their fellow inmates from the prison.
ISIS have not been eliminated yet, “and it adopts new methods launching attacks in small groups, set ambushes, snipers, mines or kidnapping people and then releasing them in exchange for ransoms,” Yawar told North Press.
ISIS operations continue in Iraq and Syria and even in western countries through stabbing and run-down attacks, according to Yawar.
The General Secretary of the Ministry of Peshmerga warned of the danger of the presence of thousands of ISIS militants in detention centers. There are up to 12,000 ISIS inmates of more than 50 nationalities in prisons in northeast Syria.
He pointed that the problem is that countries do not receive those militants and so they are like a “timing bomb” in the region.
He believes that overcrowding of ISIS militants in prisons in northeast Syria and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) transfer the prisons to ideological schools.
The same danger applies to the camps, most notably Hawl Camp that shelters tens of thousands of ISIS member families.
Jabar Yawar called the foreign states, the NGOs and the Global Coalition to put a radical solution to the problem of the jails and camps, plus setting a plan to counter terrorist ideology of ISIS.