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- Pentagon officials continue to warn that al-Hol and the other makeshift facilities holding tens of thousands of IS prisoners in northeast Syria are not sustainable, and that the jihadist group’s remaining sleeper cells continue to try to recruit prisoners and stage breakout attempts.
- In July, Dana Stroul, the Pentagon’s top official for Middle East policy, publicly called for a resumption of peace talks between Turkey’s government and the PKK, warning that Ankara’s threats to attack the Kurdish forces in Syria risks springing some 10,000 IS fighters from prison.
<span>US military kills three senior Islamic State leaders in Syria strikes</span>
