Summary
Bursting at seams: Inside a prison for Daesh suspects in Syria
Behind the steel door, the cell is as packed as their eyes are empty -- haggard, scrawny prisoners in orange jumpsuits lying head-to-tail cover every inch of floor space. An AFP team was given rare access to one of the crowded detention facilities in northeastern Syria where Kurdish forces are holding Daesh (ISIS) suspects.
With 5,000 inmates -- Syrian, Iraqi, British, French, German -- the prison is bursting with the flotsam of the international military army Daesh raised five years ago.
The prison clinic is as crowded as the other cells.
According to the Kurdish authorities, more than 50 nationalities are represented in the Kurdish-run prisons where more than 12,000 Daesh suspects are now held.
Not all Daesh fighters were caught by Kurdish and U.S.-led coalition forces in the dying days of the "caliphate" and the militant group has continued to attack its enemies through clandestine cells roaming the region.
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