Ankara will prevent Daesh fighters from leaving Syria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a forum released on Tuesday that his country would prevent Islamic State (IS) group fighters from leaving northeastern Syria where
 the Turkish army is conducting an offensive against Kurdish forces.

"We will make sure that no IS fighter can leave north-eastern Syria," Recep Tayyip Erdogan wrote in this forum. Wall Street Journal at a time when worries are mounting in the West about the fate of these fighters. Since 9 October, Turkey has opened a new front in the conflict in Syria, in the north of the country against the Kurdish forces.

800 jihadist relatives on the run since Sunday

Since the beginning of the Turkish offensive, 133 Kurdish fighters and 69 civilians have been killed, as well as 108 pro-Turkish rebels, according to the OSDH. And 160,000 people have been displaced, according to the UN. This offensive also destabilizes a region where jihadists of the Islamic State group are imprisoned. On Sunday, Kurdish forces announced the escape of 800 relatives of foreign jihadists from EI, an IDP camp in northern Syria, near the fighting between Kurdish and pro-Turkish forces. A perspective that worries France.