A U.S.-backed militia in Syria delivered a surrender-or-die ultimatum Friday to dozens of Islamic State fighters holding out in a prison a week after they attacked it, saying they would face an all-out military assault if they did not give themselves up.
Suspected Islamic State fighters, at a makeshift prison in Hasaka, Syria, on Oct. 22, 2019.
On Wednesday, the SDF declared that it had regained full control of the entire prison complex after six days of fighting. But Thursday, battles raged on to expel the fighters still holed up in the prison.Siyamend Ali, media director of the People’s Protection Units, the main Syrian-Kurdish paramilitary group within the SDF, offered an explanation Friday for the confusion.
He said the remaining militants were believed to have been among those who attacked the prison rather than detainees and that they were armed with assault rifles and machine guns, some of them seized from prison guards killed in the assault.Shortly after Ali spoke, fighters from the People’s Protection Units brought someone out from near the prison complex and detained him.
On Thursday, the SDF traded fire from the rooftops with dozens of Islamic State fighters and fired rocket-propelled grenades at the partly destroyed prison complex. The fate of the 700 boys was still not completely clear. The boys, aged 10 to 18, have been held for three years in the prison because their parents had joined the Islamic State. Some may have been recruited by the Islamic State group as child fighters.
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