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- Fighting between IS and Kurdish forces have continued for three days.
- The recent violence started after IS attacked a prison housing jihadists.
- The death toll has reached nearly 90.
Fighting raged for a third day on Saturday between the Islamic State (IS) group and Kurdish forces in Syria after IS attacked a prison housing jihadists, with the violence killing nearly 90, a monitor said.
The assault on the Ghwayran prison in the northern city of Hasakeh is one of IS’s most significant since its “caliphate” was declared defeated in Syria nearly three years ago.
“At least 28 members of the Kurdish security forces, five civilians and 56 members of IS have been killed” in the violence, said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
