U.S. Forces Return to Combat in Syria

HASAKA, Syria — U.S. and Kurdish forces battled ISIS fighters in northeastern Syrian on Saturday, in the most intense urban combat involving American soldiers in Iraq or Syria since the self-declared ISIS caliphate fell in 2019.

Fighting spilled into the residential areas of Hasaka near where Kurdish forces were trying to subdue the last ISIS gunmen barricaded in a prison in a weeklong siege.

Several dozen bodies, some dressed in orange prison jumpsuits, were seen on Saturday being carted away by Kurdish militiamen near al-Sinaa prison, an indication of the scale of fighting in recent days.