Hasakah attack aimed to end AANES: Civil Administration in Syria’s Manbij
MANBIJ, Syria (North Press) – On Thursday, the Civil Administration in Manbij (affiliated with the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria-AANES) condemned the recent terrorist attacks of ISIS sleeper cells on al-Sina’a prison in Hasakah’s Guweiran neighborhood, saying that it aimed to strike the success and stability achieved by the AANES.
“These attacks are an attempt by some parties, with international support and funding, to strike security and stability and the project of the AANES,” the Civil Administration in Manbij said in a statement.
The statement was read in the Civil Administration building by Siham Hamo, the co-chair of the Legislative Council in Manbij.
“The Turkish state was the first supporter of the ISIS attack on the prison in terms of training and financing the militants participating in the attack,” Hamo said.
After days of fighting between SDF fighters and ISIS members in the vicinity of the prison, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced in a press statement yesterday that they regained full control of the al-Sina’a prison in Hasakah’s Guweiran neighborhood, after all the ISIS members surrendered to SDF.
“ISIS attack on Hasakah’s prison was a desperate attempt to resurrect and restore its false glories,” Hamo added.
The SDF, Hamo noted, has proven to the whole world that it is the only force that is able to defeat terrorism and dry up its sources over the past ten years of the Syrian crisis.
Hamo concluded the statement by condemning the international silence regarding the recent events in Hasakah and the failure to take any steps leading to a solution to the problem of the organization’s presence in the prisons of northeast Syria.
On January 20, ISIS sleeper cells carried a series of attacks on al-Sina’a prison in the city of Hasakah, northeast Syria, where thousands of ISIS members are detained, to break their ISIS inmates fellows out of the prison.
The clashes between the SDF and ISIS caused a mass displacement of the residents of the neighborhoods surrounding the prison.