Alwaght- The US-allied Kurdish militias in northeast Syria are releasing ISIS prisoners in exchange for money under a “reconciliation” scheme, according to interviews with two freed terrorist and official documents.
About 8,000 Syrian and Iraqi men accused of being ISIS members, and 2,000 more foreigners who have not been repatriated by their home countries, are held in three overcrowded SDF-administered prisons in north-east Syria.
The released terrorists sign a declaration promising not to rejoin any armed organizations and to leave the parts of north and east Syria under control of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Guardian reported.
On their release, the two militants – both of whom had fought with ISIS until the terrorist group’s so-called caliphate collapsed in March 2019 – were reunited with their wives and children, who were also freed from al-Hawl detention camp under the deal.
The families then travelled to Idlib province, which is run by rival militants, and crossed the border to Turkey. Both men are now living, they believe, under the radar of the authorities in the country they have made their new home.
It is not known how many men have been able to buy their freedom in this manner, but the two released men estimated at least 10 people they knew from their time in Hasekeh prison had left in the same way since the reconciliation scheme was implemented in 2019.
