A UN spokesman said conditions inside the camp remained "tense and volatile" after Kurdish-led forces withdrew.

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Since Kurdish guards withdrew from the Al-Hol detention camp, where several thousand jihadists and their families are held, securing the camp has become a major challenge for the Syrian authorities.

U.S.-backed SDF forces and the Syrian government have traded blame over the escape Monday of ISIS members from the Shaddedeh prison on the border with Iraq.

Syria’s tribes, sensing it was time to split from the Kurds and ally with Syria’s government, mobilised. That spelled the end for the sdf. The group’s military campaign against is was internationally lauded,

President Trump’s bet on Syria’s new leader is facing a pivotal moment, as Kurdish forces are under attack from President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s forces in the northeast and facing growing pressure to fold into the central government.

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