"...Hundreds of supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) group have escaped from a camp in northeastern Syria amid an ongoing Turkish offensive in the Kurdish-controlled region, according to local authorities.
The ISIL affiliates fled the detention facility in Ain Issa on Sunday after attacking guards and storming its gates, the Kurdish-led administration in northern Syria said in a statement.
Jelal Ayaf, a senior official at the camp, told local media that 859 people successfully escaped from the section of the facility housing foreign nationals.
Ayaf added that a few were recaptured, but also warned that "sleeper cells" had emerged from inside another part of the facility and carried out attacks. He described the situation as "very volatile".
Al Jazeera could not independently verify the numbers...."
Re: Hundreds of ISIL prisoners escape Syrian camp, Kurds say
If Turkey was a sinister state like America, Britain, France or Israel we would have used ISIS against PKK for hundreds of times and seen them destroying each other. ‘Unfortunately’ we have a backbone and dont know to benefit from our enemies. We are a straitforward nation. If we see the enemy we directly attack them.
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