Nearly 100 Captives Flee ’ISIL’ Prison in N Syria, Militants Return to Army
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Escapees - including about 30 Kurdish fighters - broke free from an "ISIL"-ran prison in the town of al-Bab, as members of a militant group Anfal Brigade joined the Syrian Government Forces.
The "ISIL" terrorist group controlled tracts of territory across northern Syria and ran its own prisons, courts and other facilities in what it described as a caliphate extending into Iraq.
Further to the point, the London-based monitoring group stated that escapees also included Syrian civilians and members of battalions opposed to the more hardline "ISIL".
"ISIL" had put the town on high alert and had been using loudspeakers to tell citizens to capture the escapees, the so-called Observatory stated, citing people on the ground.
Al-Bab was the site of "ISIL" infighting over the weekend when several of its members broke out of another jail in the town and tried to head for the Turkish border.
The group, which included mainly European fighters, was stopped by other "ISIL" members in clashes that killed at least nine, the Observatory said.
In a similar notion, a foreign-backed militant group had reportedly broken ranks with the so-called Free Syrian Army [FSA] to join the forces of the Syrian Army.
Some 60-member of Liwa al-Anfal militant group and its commander fled over the weekend to an area near the capital, Damascus that was under the control of government forces.
Carrying their full military equipment, the gunmen surrendered to Syrian authorities to settle their legal status.
Meanwhile, other militant groups were trying to play down the defections, saying that the Anfal Brigade had no links to other groups.
Syria had been grappling with a deadly crisis since March 2011. The violence fueled by Takfiri groups had so far claimed the lives of over 210,000 people. Scarce of people, including thousands of children lost their lives in Syria last year.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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