© SANA via APFILE PHOTO: In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows missiles flying into the sky near international airport, in Damascus, Syria, on January 21, 2019.
Israel has launched an air attack over the suburbs of Damascus, the Syrian state television reported in the early hours of Monday citing a military source.
The source said the attack occurred at around 3:05 a.m. local time (1:05 GMT on Monday).
Several missiles were launched from the direction of Riyaq (also known as Rayak, a Lebanese town located east of Beirut), targeting some areas in the vicinity of Damascus.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
The Syrian air defence system downed some of the missiles, which led to material damage, the broadcaster later said on its Telegram channel, not specifying the nature of the damage.
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Syrian Kurdish forces end mop-up operations in IS-hit jail
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the end of its mopping-up campaign inside the prison "after ending the last pockets in which IS terrorists were present", it said in a statement.
IS fighters on January 20 launched their biggest assault in years on the Ghwayran prison in the Kurdish-controlled northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh, aiming to free fellow jihadists.
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Several IS fighters had been holed up in "northern dormitories" inside the prison, but the SDF on Sunday said they been defeated.
IS gunmen had been hiding in prison "cellars that are difficult to target with air strikes or infiltrate," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Hunt for fugitives
The war monitor, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria, said operations were still ongoing near the prison hunting for escaped IS fugitives.
"Dozens of IS members managed to escape from Ghwayran prison... in the early hours of the attack," the war monitor said.
It reported that 20 IS fighters had surrendered on Saturday, while the SDF killed another five in an exchange of fire inside the prison.
© AFPMembers of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) deploy outside Ghwayran prison in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakeh on January 26
The death toll rose overnight on Sunday after the SDF found over 50 more bodies in prison buildings and nearby areas, the war monitor said.
"The newly discovered bodies were inside and outside the prison," Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Observatory, told AFP.
He said the death toll was likely to rise further, because "there are dozens of people who are wounded, others who are still missing, and information about more casualties" on both sides.
On Saturday, an AFP correspondent saw a truck carrying away piles of bodies from an area near the prison, believed to be those of IS fighters.
A bulldozer dumped more corpses onto the truck, which then headed to an unknown location.
Farhad Shami, who heads the SDF's media office, told AFP that the bodies would be buried in "remote, dedicated areas" under SDF control.
The violence prompted 45,000 people to flee Hasakeh, the United Nations said. Many took refuge in relatives' homes, while hundreds more slept in the city's mosques and wedding halls.
The war in Syria, which broke out in 2011, has killed close to half a million people and spurred the largest conflict-induced displacement since World War II.
The fruits of US 'intervention':
"The attack on this prison that houses Daesh inmates was planned and organized by the US to justify the military presence of their forces in the area, on the pretext that the Daesh terrorist group is still active and the region is still inflamed" This was stated by Musab al-Halabi, a member of the parliament of the Levantine country, in an interview broadcast this Sunday by the Russian media Radio Sputnik.
According to the legislator, a large number of the components of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish militia that has the support of the United States, have died in clashes with the Syrian army forces in Al-Hasaka, so now the situation in this city is under control.
Al-Halabi urged the SDF to abandon their allegiance to Washington and pointed out that "the United States is seeking a conspiracy to redesign the West Asian region and divide the area, especially in northern Syria".
The US bombed Syrian civilians in the failed "attack on Daesh" causing more casualties among the civilian population.The riots occurred after Daesh members opened fire on guards Thursday night and facilitated the escape of 20 detainees, including leaders of the Takfiri group, after detonating two car bombs on the walls of the prison, located in a suburb. by Al-Hasaka.
In a statement released this Sunday, the SDF announced that 200 Daesh members, including several suicidal elements, participated in the attack on the prison. They also pointed out that the militias have complete control of the prison and have counted the number of terrorists killed during the fighting over the past three days at 175.
This attack is considered the largest and most violent offensive conducted by Daesh since March 2019.
Despite the fall of the 'caliphate' proclaimed by Daesh in Syria, the remnants of this takfiri band continue to operate in different parts of the country, especially in the border areas with Iraq; Given this situation, Syria, with the support of Russia, is carrying out operations to cleanse the country of any extremist presence.
It is no mystery that the CIA controls and maneuvers radical Daesh groups and uses them for its strategies in Syria and Iraq. Repeatedly reported incidents in which they were released from extremist Daesh prisons on the orders of the Americans and transferred to other areas by US forces helicopters. The Kurdish SDF, armed and supported by the US, carry out orders but at times, as in this case, remain among the victims of the destabilization strategies desired by Washington.