U.S.-allied forces guarding prisons holding thousands of Islamic State group militants in northeastern Syria said Monday that they had lost control of one of the facilities after fighting broke out with fighters loyal to the government in Damascus.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) added that one prison was less than 2 miles from a U.S.-led coalition base, but it “did not intervene, despite repeated calls for intervention.” Now the facility was “no longer in SDF control.” The longtime U.S. ally added on Telegram that it was trying to “prevent a serious security catastrophe
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Source: NBC News
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