DAMASCUS (Dispatches) -- Hundreds of Daesh terrorists, including many ringleaders with foreign nationalities, have been transferred from Syria’s Hasakah province to Dayr al-Zawr under the U.S. air cover.
Sources told Russia’s Sputnik news agency that U.S. forces took advantage of the chaos in Hasakah’s Al-Sina’a prison also known as Ghwayran to transfer 750 Daesh elements, most of whom hold Arab, Belgian and Dutch nationalities, to Dayr al-Zawr.
The sources said a large number of Daesh ringleaders escaped in a coordinated manner from the prison after the terror outfit seized the jail and clashed with SDF militants, a U.S.-backed alliance of Kurdish forces fighting Damascus.
U.S. reconnaissance planes carried out monitoring and guidance operations on bypass roads to secure the terrorists’ arrival at their destination, they added.
SUVs and buses were used in the relocation process, they said.
According to sources quoted by Sputnik, in the coordinated operation, SDF militias had the task to create chaos in the prison and the surrounding areas in order to provide a smokescreen for the vehicles to relocate Daesh terrorists.
Speaking at a Security Council meeting, Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN Bassam Sabbagh attributed the attacks in Hasakah to Daesh and American occupation forces, stressing that members of the U.S.-led coalition enrolled terrorists to spread chaos and destabilize his country.
“The United States used terrorism to target civilian installations, including schools and hospitals… U.S. occupying forces transferred Daesh terrorists from detention centers and ‘recycled’ them, as demonstrated by recent events, attempting to provide an excuse for their presence in Syria, which only signals support for the separatist militias,” he said.
Condemning some Western countries for refusing to repatriate their mercenaries, Sabbagh called on the United States and Turkey to withdraw their troops from Syria.
Russia’s Deputy UN Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy said also Daesh terrorists had stormed Al-Sina’a prison with explosives in a well-planned attack.
The United Nations and its humanitarian partners must demand a full report from Washington on the number of civilian casualties during the incident, the Russian envoy said.
“Western States continue to embrace double standards, proof that they prioritize political goals more highly than the aim of ending terrorism in Syria.”
Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. The Syrian government says the U.S. and its allies are aiding takfiri terrorist groups that are wreaking havoc in the Arab country.
The United States has deployed forces and military equipment in Syria without any authorization from Damascus or the UN. It has long been training militants and stealing Syria’s oil, ignoring repeated calls by Damascus to end its occupation of the country.
On Sunday, some reports said clashes still continue between Daesh and SDF militants in Hasakah and four Katyusha rockets had been fired at the U.S. military base in Al-Shaddadi town.
Other sources said several people were injured in the rocket attack.
In the United States, an American woman has been arrested and charged with joining Daesh and leading an all-female battalion of the takfiri militants, the U.S. Justice Department has disclosed.
Allison Fluke-Ekren, a former Kansas teacher, who led Khatiba Nusaybah, has been arrested by FBI for training women and children to use assault rifles and suicide belts, federal prosecutors said.
A criminal complaint filed in 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, charges Fluke-Ekren with providing and conspiring to provide material support to Daesh.
Fluke-Ekren, 42, was previously apprehended in Syria and transferred into the custody of the FBI on Saturday, at which point she was first brought to the Eastern District of Virginia.
She is expected to have her initial appearance at the federal courthouse in Alexandria on Monday, according to Department of Justice statement. If convicted, Fluke-Ekren faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
The mother of five, allegedly trained her own children to use AK-47s and suicide belts, translated speeches made by Daesh leaders, and is also suspected of recruiting operatives for a potential future attack on an American college campus, the DOJ said.
Fluke-Ekren allegedly told a witness about her desire to conduct
 an attack in the United States.
Prosecutors said Fluke-Ekren left the U.S. in 2008 for Egypt, lived there for about three years and then moved to Libya, where she stayed for about a year before sneaking into Syria with her husband, a Daesh sniper trainer.
Fluke-Ekren and her husband allegedly brought $15,000 into Syria to buy weapons, grenades and other military supplies. She has been involved in a vast array of activities on behalf of Daesh since at least 2014, prosecutors say.
Some 5,000 European citizens traveled to Iraq and Syria as “foreign fighters”, of whom approximately 20% are women and children, according to reports. This does not include the children born in Iraq and Syria to foreign fighters.
The West, united to overthrow the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad and replace him with a puppet regime, was aware of its citizens traveling to Iraq and Syria to join Daesh and other terrorist groups. Many of them were monitored by police and security forces.
Currently, the U.S., Europe and their allies are refusing to accept thousands of Daesh members who are languishing in detention centers in Iraq and Syria, posing an additional security headache for the countries.
In the latest trouble, U.S.-backed Kurdish militants launched an attack on the Ghwayran prison in Hasakah to free their comrades held by some 3,500 Daesh inmates who mutinied on Jan. 20.
More than 330 people have been killed in heavy fighting since Daesh first attacked the prison, a UK-based activist group said on Sunday.
The terrorist group launched its biggest assault in years on the Ghwayran prison in Hasakah, in an attempt to free prisoners belonging to the group who had mutinied.