US-backed Kurdish-led forces retake Syrian prison from IS

US-backed Kurdish-led forces retake Syrian prison from IS
American soldiers deploy in Hassakeh, Syria (Hogir Al Abdo/AP)

US-backed Kurdish-led forces said they wrestled control of the last section of a prison in Syria controlled by so-called Islamic State (IS) militants and freed a number of child detainees used as human shields.

It ended a weeklong assault by the extremists on one of the largest detention facilities in the country.

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