Thousands of Iraqi migrants, including an estimated 8,000 from the Kurdistan Region, are trapped on the border of Belarus and Poland, victims of an intensifying showdown in Eastern Europe between the European Union and Russia-aligned Belarus.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the completion of an operation in the al-Hol prison camp, where ISIS sleeper cells have been active amongst the 62,000 detainees. The “Asayish” conducted the dangerous operation inside the sprawling camp, which netted 125 jihadist infiltrators.