More than 70 people have been killed in the fighting between militants and Kurdish-led forces.
Intense fighting is taking place in north-eastern Syria after Islamic State fighters tried to break inmates out of a Kurdish-run prison.
The overcrowded site houses 3,500 suspected IS members including some of its leaders, a monitoring group says. Meanwhile IS claimed in a video on 22 January that many of its members had been freed in the attack on the prison. The footage also appeared to show the militants holding a number of hostages.Islamic State group members - and their wives - have predicted for years exactly this scenario. A mass prison break in Syria.
IS grew out of a "Breaking the Walls" campaign of prison breaks in Iraq in 2012. That campaign is a foundational touchstone for the group, seen as a turning point in its fortunes.
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