KABUL: (Middle East Press) A war group monitoring said on Tuesday that about 95 hostages have escaped an ISIS-run prison in northern Syria.
The jailbreak happened in the town of al-Bab, 30km south of the Turkish frontier, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The escapees included about 30 Kurdish fighters.
ISIS has put al-Bab on high alert, urging for residents to retake the jail-breakers, the Observatory said, citing their sources in the town.
ISIS controls swathes of territory across northern Syria and runs its own prisons, courts and other facilities in what it describes as an Islamic caliphate extending into Iraq.
Al-Bab was also the scene of a fight over the weekend between mostly European ISIS fighters trying to escape to Turkey and Syrian ISIS fighters trying to stop them, the Observatory said, adding that nine ISIS militants died.
