US Warplanes Hit Syrian Residential Neighborhood in Hasakah
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – US warplanes bombarded a residential neighborhood in Syria's northeastern province of Hasakah a week after the Daesh terrorist group attacked a detention center controlled by US-backed Kurdish militias.
Citing local sources, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported that the US fighter jets hit multiple houses near the Industrial Secondary Prison in Hasakah city on Friday, under the dubious pretense of tracking down terrorists who had escaped the Kurdish-run Ghwayran jail.
The aerial strikes, according to the source, caused tremendous destruction in the targeted region, but there was no immediate information on the number of victims.
According to SANA, the US military bombings were accompanied by home break-ins carried out by SDF members in Hasakah's Aziziyah neighborhood.
A large number of people were arrested and taken to an undisclosed place by militants backed by the United States.
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces announced on Wednesday that they had retaken full control of Ghwayran jail, bringing an end to six days of warfare that had turned the largest city in northeastern Syria into a war zone.
On January 20, more than 100 Daesh terrorists attacked the Ghwayran jail to release their comrades from the detention center, which was thought to hold around 3,500 Daesh inmates at the time.
After their two explosives-laden trucks were directed by bombers, the Daesh terrorists entered the prison and killed the guards. The terrorists snatched a large number of their compatriots from prison, stole weapons, and took control of numerous cell blocks.
According to the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 124 Daesh terrorists, 50 SDF militants, and seven civilians were killed in the daring Daesh jailbreak attempt and accompanying combat. Since the fall of the so-called caliphate nearly three years ago, the strike is considered the group's most high-profile and complex terrorist operation.
The news comes as security in the SDF-controlled portions of Syria's northern and northeastern provinces of Raqqah, Hasakah, and Deir Ez-Zur has deteriorated.
Local Syrians complain that the regular raids by the US-backed SDF forces have created a situation of dissatisfaction and uncertainty, harming their businesses and livelihoods significantly.