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Kurdish security forces announced today that they had foiled an Islamic State attack on their general staff and a prison holding jihadists in Raqqa, northern Syria.

Six members of the security forces were killed in the attack.

One jihadist, strapped with explosives, was killed and a second captured, said Farhad Sami, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF, the US-backed Arab Kurdish coalition). According to this source, the SDF managed to repel the jihadists who were targeting a Kurdish security force compound in Raqqa, the former IS “capital” in Syria.

Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), said the attackers’ target was the prison housed in the complex, which holds around 900 jihadists – 200 of them senior IS officials.

In a Telegram post, IS claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it wanted to “take revenge on the Muslim prisoners”, mainly the women of the jihadists housed in the al-Hol camp in northern Syria.

This camp, which is under Kurdish administration, is home to more than 50,000 relatives of IS jihadists, including many foreigners from 60 countries as well as Syrian displaced persons and Iraqi refugees.

After the attack, the autonomous Kurdish administration declared a state of emergency in Raqqa and banned traffic in the city “until further notice”.

In a post on Twitter, the SDF’s top commander Mazloum Abdi said his forces were “closely monitoring the movements of Daesh terrorist cells in Raqqa.”

“Information from Raqqa shows that alarming preparations are underway by terrorist cells,” he warned.

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