Commander: Kurdish forces end riots by IS prisoners in Syria

31/3/2020 18:44

        Kurdish-led forces have successfully put down riots by Islamic State militants in a prison in northeast Syria with none of the prisoners escaping the facility, the top commander of the U.S.-backed forces said.
        
        Mazloum Abdi of the Syrian Democratic Forces tweeted shortly before midnight on Monday that "we were able to avoid catastrophe" in the prison in the northeastern city of Hassakeh.
        
        Kurdish authorities run more than two dozen detention facilities, scattered around northeastern Syria, holding about 10,000 IS fighters. Among the detainees are some 2,000 foreigners, including about 800 Europeans.
        
        Abdi urged that home countries of the foreign fighters find a solution for the prisoners. "Our allies must find a quick radical solution to this international problem," he said.