Asayish imposes total curfew on Syria’s Hasakah
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – On Friday, the General Command of the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) imposed a total curfew on the city of Hasakah, and blocked of entry and exit to the city against the backdrop of security developments in al-Sina’a prison, which houses members of the Islamic State (ISIS).
The statement said the closure will continue until further notice, due to the recent events in the city of Hasakah of the attack of ISIS cells on al-Sina’a prison in an attempt to secure the escape of ISIS inmates.
This was accompanied by a threat to the security and safety of all neighborhoods of the city, with cells trying to hide among civilians, according to the statement
Yesterday, the SDF imposed a security cordon on the vicinity of al-Sina’a prison, against the backdrop of a riot carried out by ISIS sleeper cells, coinciding with three explosions near the prison.
Intermittent clashes took place in the vicinity of the prison and on the outskirts of al-Zohour neighborhood, south Hasakah, after ISIS members fled to it.
The ongoing clashes between the SDF and ISIS sleeper cells caused a mass exodus of the residents of the neighborhoods of Ghuweiran, al-Nashwa, Villat Hawsh al-Ba’er, and Villat al-Hamr, to the central and northern neighborhoods of Hasakah.
Today the SDF arrested about 110 ISIS inmates, who had managed to escape from al-Sina’a prison in the Ghuweiran neighborhood of Hasakah city, northeast Syria.
The SDF managed to pull two bodies of ISIS members who were killed during the clashes in the vicinity of al-Sina’a prison and the nearby neighborhoods, one of them was of Asian nationality.