A vast Syrian camp for ISIS families faces an uncertain fate
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ISIS fighters still at large
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Kurdish-led fighters have long guarded facilities holding Islamic State detainees or their families, after the caliphate the group tried to establish was defeated in 2019.
Chaos around prisons holding ISIS detainees in Syria is highlighting security risks for U.S. forces in the region.
"We've requested and demanded guarantees, but as always, the U.S. does not give any," the SDF's political co-chair told Newsweek.
A U.S. airstrike in northwest Syria kills al Qaeda leader Bilal Hasan al-Jasim, linked to the deaths of three Americans.
In the space of two days, the Syrian military, aided by tribal militia, has driven Kurdish forces from wide swathes of northern Syria that they have held for more than a decade.
The retreat of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the north-east marks the biggest change of control in Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.