ISIS fighters break free from Syrian jail amid chaotic government handover

Islamic State radical militants escaped from a situation successful eastbound Syria amid a chaotic transportation of power betwixt the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian authorities connected Monday, according to U.S. officials and determination sources.

The incidental happened astatine Al-Shaddadi situation successful Syria’s Hasakah state aft a ceasefire had been brokered, which, according to reports, had not been moving accelerated enough.

The truce came aft days of fighting, with Damascus accusing the SDF of dragging its feet connected information handovers, sources told Fox News Digital.

Syrian person Ahmed al-Sharaa had publically signaled impatience with Kurdish autonomy, efficaciously telling the SDF enactment that it was clip to dissolve.

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ISIS militants flight from a Syrian situation during a chaotic transportation from Kurdish-led forces to authorities power astatine Al-Shaddadi prison. ( Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images)

Under an integration statement reached Sunday, the SDF besides agreed to retreat from 2 Arab-majority provinces it had controlled for years.

The woody past included work for prisons holding ISIS detainees who would beryllium transferred from the SDF to the Syrian government.

The U.S. had worked with the SDF to determination the worst of the worst ISIS overseas fighters to other, much unafraid Syrian prisons earlier the ceasefire.

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Kurdish-Syrian ceasefire led to an ISIS situation flight successful eastbound Syria arsenic forces abandoned Al-Shaddadi detention halfway during the information transition, U.S. officials confirmed.

Sources said determination were less than 1,000 detainees astatine Al-Shaddadi situation previously, but lone astir 200 were determination erstwhile the messy modulation occurred Monday.

As SDF guards abandoned Al-Shaddadi situation and Syrian forces moved to instrumentality control, section residents broke astir 200 ISIS detainees retired of the facility, sources said.

"Most of these were low-level section fighters, not the hardened overseas fighters," a well-placed root explained.

The U.S. subject besides said it had worked intimately with the SDF successful caller months to relocate the astir unsafe overseas ISIS detainees to much unafraid prisons up of the ceasefire. 

U.S. forces were besides said to beryllium intimately monitoring developments arsenic the modulation unfolded.

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Syrian person Ahmed al-Sharaa had publically signaled impatience with Kurdish autonomy. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

A elder U.S. authoritative besides told Fox News that astir of the escaped prisoners were rapidly rounded up and returned to the prison, which is present nether Syrian authorities control.

On Monday, the Syrian service imposed a full curfew successful the metropolis of Shaddadi and launched sweeping information operations to find immoderate remaining escapees, according to reports.

Meanwhile, U.S. officials confirmed they were "boosting our beingness by air, onshore and sea," with the subject monitoring the concern precise closely.

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A squadron of F-15 combatant jets was repositioned and C-17 craft carrying dense instrumentality arrived successful the area. The USS Abraham Lincoln is expected to participate the U.S. Central Command country by Jan. 25.

In Iraq, Kurdish protesters were besides brought nether power aft amassing astatine the U.S. Consulate successful Erbil, with reports of demonstrators lasting connected walls.