As Turkish invasion conflict escalates, Kurds guarding an ISIS jail threaten to leave; prison guards said the inmates were growing increasingly restless, with some trying to start riots.
Inside an ISIS prison in northeast Syria. None of the inmates who spoke to NBC News said they had been ISIS fighters.But that might not be the case for much longer. Facing a chaotic, fast-moving conflict, which hasand forced tens of thousands of people from their homes, the guards are now threatening to leave if the conflict deteriorates.
An SDF prison warden told NBC News this weekend that if the situation in the area continued to deteriorate, the guards would have no choice but to lock the doors and leave for the frontlines. None of the prisoners who spoke to NBC News admitted to being ISIS fighters. Many said they had lived under Islamic State rule until the last stronghold of the caliphate, Baghuz, collapsed this year falling into the hands of the SDF. And not all were obviously of fighting age, with elderly men and a boy who claimed to be 14 among the inmates.
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