{"id":73142,"date":"2022-01-24T21:47:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T21:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/01\/24\/us-provided-limited-ground-support-to-syrian-fighters-battling-isis\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:42:04","slug":"us-provided-limited-ground-support-to-syrian-fighters-battling-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/flashpoints\/2022\/01\/24\/us-provided-limited-ground-support-to-syrian-fighters-battling-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"US provided \u2018limited ground support\u2019 to Syrian fighters battling ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. has provided \u201climited ground support\u201d to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2022\/01\/21\/us-carried-out-airstrikes-in-syria-against-isis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Syrian Kurdish fighters<\/a> deployed inside a prison in northeast Syria on Monday, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have helped provide real-time surveillance during the event,\u201d Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters Monday. \u201cWe have conducted a series of strikes through this days-long operation to include the precision targeting of ISIS fighters who were attacking the SDF from buildings in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. has \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/11\/01\/special-ops-troops-in-middle-east-restructured-for-broad-regional-isis-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\">provided limited ground support<\/a>, strategically positioned to assist security in the area \u2015 for instance, putting Bradley Fighting Vehicles across access points to help block his obstacle,\u201d said Kirby. \u201cSo there\u2019s been some limited ground support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kirby deferred further questions to Combined Joint Task Force &#8211; Operation Inherent Resolve. Officials from the task force did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S.-backed SDF force are closing in on the facility\u2019s last wing controlled by militants for days, the SDF and a war monitor said. The raid follows the surrender of hundreds of Islamic State fighters and aims to end one of the most brazen attacks by the group in years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forces took over buildings near the prison\u2019s northern wing, said Farhad Shami, a spokesman for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. That\u2019s where dozens of IS militants have been holed up since Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shami said SDF forces advanced after about 300 IS militants surrendered early Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2022\/01\/21\/us-carried-out-airstrikes-in-syria-against-isis\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/F-15Es-over-Syria.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US carried out airstrikes in Syria against ISIS<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The airstrikes were in response to the ISIS group unleashing its biggest attack in Syria since the fall of its \u201ccaliphate\u201d three years ago.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over a dozen Kurdish fighters and more than 100 militants have been killed in clashes since the assault began, according to the Kurdish-led force. The number of fugitives remain unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Journalists at the scene said Kurdish officials asked them to step away from the vicinity of the prison earlier Monday, apparently in anticipation of a military operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported a buildup of Kurdish forces backed by U.S. armored vehicles around the prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Witnesses in the city of Hassakeh, where the prison is located and is under a tight security cordon, said buses arrived at the prison apparently to transport militants who had turned themselves in to another location. Coalition helicopters were hovering overhead, a resident said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Monday evening, more than 96 hours after the initial assault, clashes resumed between the SDF and accompanying forces and militants still holed up in the prison wing, said Siamand Ali, another spokesman for the SDF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kurdish-led administration had announced a weeklong curfew in Hassakeh starting Monday. The International Committee of the Red Cross said tens of thousands of people fled their homes in the city seeking safety and were in need of shelter, food and health services during the harsh winter season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The standoff followed a bold assault on Gweiran Prison on Thursday. Militants rammed vehicles through its walls, enabling a number of imprisoned fighters to escape and take hostages. Clashes have continued since then, including with militants holed up in adjacent residential areas. The U.S.-led coalition carried out a number of strikes on suspected militants who had taken control of the prison\u2019s northern wing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday, Shami said the militants were using hundreds of minors detained in the prison as human shields. More than 3,000 suspected IS militants, including over 600 minors, are held in Gweiran, the largest of a dozen detention facilities in Syria housing militants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Save the Children and Human Rights Watch said Monday that audio testimony they received suggests that children were among the dead and wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cReports that children have been killed or injured are tragic and outrageous,\u201d said Sonia Khush, Save the Children\u2019s Syria response director, calling for the immediate evacuation of children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the boys caught in the fighting have been held in Gweiran for almost three years, including about 300 who are from Iraq and other countries, according to Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Letta Tayler, associate crisis and conflict director at HRW, said one foreign boy in an audio message described \u201ca lot of people dead, a lot of people injured.\u201d Tayler said the boy was speaking from the kitchen where he described coming under fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was not clear if the boys, who are normally held in separate wings, were brought to the kitchen after the assault began. Earlier in the assault, SDF officials said the group had lost contact with kitchen staff, suggesting they were among hostages taken by IS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile the responsibility for this siege rests squarely with (IS), this does not absolve the U.S.-led coalition and the local authorities of their responsibility to take all feasible steps to protect these prisoners from harm, including hundreds of boys trapped inside who have never been charged with any crime,\u201d Tayler said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Khush, of Save the Children, called for foreign children to be repatriated with their families. \u201cThe international community cannot have the blood of any of these children on their hands,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rami Abdurrahman, the head of the Observatory, said scores of minors, some as young as 15, had been moved to another prison facility to the south soon after the assault began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SDF said about 27 of its fighters were killed in the assault. Abdurrahman put the figure at 52, adding that about 100 militants were killed. The SDF said about 100 escaped and were arrested by the total number of fugitive is still not clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dozen of facilities in northeastern Syria run by the SDF house thousands of suspected IS militants, including foreigners, since the defeat of the extremists in 2019. The Kurdish-led administration has said the facilities are a strain on its resources and had repeatedly appealed for countries to repatriate their nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thousands of IS family members and supporters are also held in displacement camps in what amounts to detention facilities mostly for women and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. has provided some ground support to Kurdish 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