In January 2022, scores of suspected Islamic State militants escaped a jail in northeastern Syria during a sophisticated breakout. It was the group’s boldest attack in the region since the end of their self-declared caliphate.
This is how ISIS is using prisons to prepare its comeback, and how governments - who spent billions on the fight against ISIS - are turning a blind eye.
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