Syria's army on Wednesday entered the vast Al-Hol camp that houses relatives of suspected Islamic State jihadists after Kurdish forces withdrew from the site, said an AFP journalist at the scene.

The development comes amid fighting between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria. Thousands of Islamic State fighters are being held in detention facilities in the region.

U.S.-backed SDF forces and the Syrian government have traded blame over the escape Monday of ISIS members from the Shaddedeh prison on the border with Iraq.

In the space of two days, the Syrian military, aided by tribal militia, has driven Kurdish forces from wide swathes of northern Syria that they have held for more than a decade.

The Department of War carried out airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria, U.S. Central Command announced Saturday afternoon. CENTCOM, a unified combatant command of the Department of War, wrote in a statement posted to X that it conducted “large-scale strikes against multiple ISIS targets across Syria” at about 12:30 p.

U.S. forces killed an al Qaeda affiliated leader allegedly linked to an ISIS attack that killed three Americans in Syria, as CENTCOM launched counterterrorism operations Jan. 16.

Three Americans were killed in the ambush in Palmyra, Syria.