Chaos in Syria sparks fears of ISIS prison breaks
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A fragile truce reached this week between the Syrian government and Kurdish-led fighters was seen as a blow by many Kurds in their hard-won fight for autonomy.
The huge al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria for years has posed an intractable problem — a destitute and increasingly dangerous detention site where ISIS ideology lives on.
Questions have emerged over the fate of thousands of ISIS prisoners in northeast Syria after government forces seized swathes of territory long controlled by Kurdish forces who had been guarding the prisons.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said that it asked for help from a U.S. coalition base but that it "did not intervene, despite repeated calls for intervention."
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The Syrian ministry said Syrian army units and ministry special forces entered Shaddadi following the breakout. Syria's Interior Ministry said on Tuesday that about 120 Islamic State terrorists escaped from Shaddadi prison,