Hundreds of ISIS Supporters Flee Detention Amid Turkish Airstrikes
Source: New York Times
AKCAKALE, Turkey — Hundreds of relatives of Islamic State fighters fled a Kurdish-run detention camp on Sunday morning after Turkish airstrikes hit the surrounding area, an aid group said, deepening the crisis prompted by the Turkish-led invasion of northern Syria. The escapes raised fears that the attempts to contain affiliates of the militant group were crumbling.
A Kurdish official also said that the flag of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, had been raised in the countryside between the camp in the Kurdish-held town of Ain Issa and the Turkish border, another indication of how the Kurdish authorities were losing control of a region they had freed from the extremists only months ago. “We are facing very fierce attacks and we’re forced to decrease numbers of guards,” said the official, Ciya Kurd, of the Kurdish-led regional authority, who confirmed the break from the displacement camp after the Turkish strikes.
In a signal that the United States was becoming more concerned about the escalation of the conflict, the American defense secretary, Mark Esper, told CBS’s “Face the Nation” in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday that the United States would evacuate about 1,000 American troops from northern Syria in a “deliberate withdrawal.”
Mr. Esper said that the United States found itself “likely caught between two opposing advancing armies” in northern Syria and called the escalation of the conflict in the region a “very terrible situation.” He said the United States had learned that Turkey was likely to expand its incursion “farther south than originally planned and to the west” in Syria.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/world/middleeast/syria-turkey-invasion-isis.html
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