{"id":1665860,"date":"2026-02-21T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1665860"},"modified":"2026-02-21T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:30:00","slug":"us-intelligence-15000-were-let-free-from-isis-detention-camp-after-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/us-intelligence-15000-were-let-free-from-isis-detention-camp-after-collapse\/1665860\/","title":{"rendered":"US Intelligence: 15,000+ Were Let Free From ISIS Detention Camp After Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Intelligence: 15,000+ Were Let Free From ISIS Detention Camp After Collapse<\/span><\/p>\n

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Another ‘win’ for America’s disastrous Syria policy, long predicated on overthrowing the Assad government and installing a ‘moderate’ Sunni regime – though it turns out Jolani’s bearded Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militants are anything but…<\/p>\n

“U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that 15,000 to 20,000 people, including Islamic State affiliates are now at large in Syria<\/strong>, after an\u00a0exodus from a camp<\/a>\u00a0that held jihadists\u2019 families, U.S. officials familiar with the estimate said,” The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> reports Friday.<\/p>\n

Who could have predicted that chaos, instability, and terrorism would come out of the CIA’s Operation Timber Sycamore<\/a>? Well, we did, and every rational observer of the Syria situation.<\/p>\n

Al Hol camp last year, AFP\/Getty Images<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

A billion plus dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives after the decade-long proxy war, and this is all Washington has to show for it<\/a>:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Security experts have long warned that the wives of Islamic State fighters were effectively raising the next generation of militants<\/strong> at the\u00a0sprawling Al-Hol facility<\/a>. Security at the camp fell apart in recent weeks after Syria\u2019s government routed the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which\u00a0had guarded Al-Hol for years<\/a>, raising concerns about the release of people who might have become radicalized during the years held behind the razor wire.<\/em><\/p>\n

The size of a small city, the camp in Syria\u2019s eastern desert at one point held more than 70,000 people after U.S.-backed forces destroyed what remained of Islamic State\u2019s self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria in 2019. At the end of 2025, more than 23,000 people were there<\/strong>, according to a report this week from the Pentagon\u2019s Inspector General.<\/em><\/p>\n

The US military is rapidly backing out of this region after the years-long occupation, effectively throwing the Kurds (SDF) under the bus, as HTS radicals move in and take control.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Given many analysts have pointed to HTS being ‘ISIS-lite’ to begin with<\/a>, the following WSJ note is no surprise<\/a>: “The vast majority have left Al-Hol after the Syrian government took control last month. Western diplomats in Damascus assessed that more than 20,000 people fled the camp in a matter of days earlier amid rioting<\/strong> and a surge of escape attempts.”<\/p>\n

There were even reports that the ISIS prisoners greeted the government HTS troops rolling in as ‘liberators’. The new government is certainly not “fighting” Islamic State cells… quite the contrary:<\/p>\n

As the Asayish is set to re-take the control of the Al hol camp and region (including everything north of it) – the Syrian Government Forces currently in charge of Al Hol Camp have opened the gates of the camp and are releasing+transporting as many ISIS members and families out\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/2jQOR4hisI<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 ScharoMaroof (@ScharoMaroof) February 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

And now the Washington blob is simply moving on to the next regime change operation, this time a little further east in Iran, which it turns out was a key Assad ally.<\/p>\n

So in place of the secular nationalist Baath party (under the Assad family), the West has the literal founder of Syrian al-Qaeda as president of Damascus, letting ISIS prisoners and affiliates walk free.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 02\/20\/2026 – 20:30<\/span><\/p>\n

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