SDF arrests ISIS militant in Syria’s Hasakah
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – On Friday, Counter-terrorism Units of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested a militant of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) in Hasakah Governorate, northeast Syria.
The SDF Press Center said that the terrorist was arrested in the neighborhood of Guweiran in Hasakah.
“The arrested terrorist was responsible for promoting the ISIS extremist and terrorist ideology in the neighborhood, facilitating the work of the sleeper cells of ISIS in the area, and attracting and recruiting new terrorists,” the SDF Press Center added.
The center stressed the SDF commitment to go ahead in its operations “in the region to ensure the enduring defeat of ISIS and its extremist ideology and to maintain the safety and security in the region.”
On January 20, ISIS sleeper cells attacked Hasakah-based al-Sina’a prison which used to hold thousands of ISIS members the SDF had captured in battlefields over years of its war on the hardline organization.
Then, three explosions were carried out by ISIS sleeper cells in an attempt to break their fellows out from the prison.
Immediately, clashes took place in the vicinity of the prison between the SDF and the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) with the support of the Global Coalition to defeat ISIS on the one hand and ISIS sleeper cells and some inmates who managed to escape on the other.
The clashes lasted for almost ten days and the SDF declared full control of the prison but continued security combing operations in search of ISIS escapees and the sleeper cells in the neighborhoods of Hasakah.