Wife of an ISIS fighter at al-Hol camp in al-Hasakah governorate in northeastern Syria on February 17, 2019. (File photo: AFP)
ISIS said Thursday it had “freed” women held by Syria’s Kurds, the latest in a series of reported breakouts since Turkey launched a cross-border offensive last week.
In a statement released on the Telegram messaging application, ISIS said it had stormed a security headquarters west of its former stronghold of Raqqa on Wednesday, “freeing Muslim women kidnapped” by Kurdish-led forces.
It did not give a number or say if the women were ISIS members or wives of extremists.
