The attempted jailbreak began last Thursday with two coordinated car bomb attacks to free suspected Daesh members — sparking violence between ISIL fighters and Kurdish-led Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) which control the prison, including in residential areas of Al-Hasekeh.
Nurse Bassem Mohammed was shot dead with a silencer at Al-Hol camp, while surgeon Abdel Mofedi Ali was killed in a drive-by shooting in front of a hospital in Deir az-Zour province.
Drought-like conditions, which started earlier this year, threaten food security and livelihoods, and are likely to displace more people, according to UN data
With the Syrian civil war in its 10th year and more than half the country's population forcibly displaced by conflict, millions of Syrians face a new