Syria Kurds launch security sweep in Daesh families camp: War monitor

More than thirty people were in a sweeping operation in and around the Al-Hol camp, above. (AFP)

• Operation backed by the US-led coalition battling Daesh

BEIRUT: Kurdish authorities launched a security operation in a camp holding suspected family members of Daesh group militants and made of dozens of arrests Sunday, a war monitor and Kurdish officials said.
“More than thirty women and men have been arrested” in a sweeping operation in and around the Al-Hol camp, said Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Media officials with the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Kurds’ main fighting force, confirmed the operation, saying it was backed by the US-led coalition battling Daesh.