Battle of al-Hasakah (2022)

Battle of al-Hasakah
Part of the Rojava–Islamist conflict of the Syrian civil war, and the American-led intervention in Syria
The military situation following the attack on the prison (21 January 2022)
Date 20–30 January 2022 (1 week and 3 days) Location Al-Hasakah, Syria 36°28′39″N 40°45′45″E / 36.47750°N 40.76250°E / 36.47750; 40.76250 Result SDF tactical victory/minor ISIL strategic victory[1] Destruction of Al-Sina'a Prison At least 1,100 prisoners and fighters surrendered or arrested,[2] while hundreds of prisoners escaped[3] Heavy casualties inflicted on IS At least 2 IS Emirs escaped[4]
Belligerents
Rojava YPG Asayish SDF CJTF–OIR United States United Kingdom	Islamic State
Commanders and leaders
Usman Mahmoud Uthman †[5]	Abu Abaida [6]
Strength
9,000 SDF soldiers[7] US and UK ground troops Coalition air forces[8]	200–300+ fighters[9] 2 suicide bombers ~3,500–4,000 prisoners[7][10]
Casualties and losses
Per SOHR: 159 killed[11], 120 injured,[12] 50 hostages taken[13] Per SDF: 121 killed[14][1] Per IS: 260 killed[15]	Per SOHR: 346 killed,[16] 1,100 re-arrested[2] Per SDF: 374 killed,[17] 3,600 re-arrested[9]
4–7 civilians killed[16][17] 40+ unidentified killed[16] 45,000 civilians displaced[18]
class=notpageimage| Location within Syria

The 2022 Battle of al-Hasakah was a large-scale Islamic State attack and prison riot aimed at freeing arrested fighters of the Islamic State from al-Sina'a prison in the Ghuwayran (Geweran^[19]) area of Al-Hasakah, Syria, which resulted in a partial strategic victory and major propaganda victory for the Islamic State, with hundreds of prisoners, including important Emirs, being freed from captivity. The attack was the largest attack committed by the Islamic State since it lost its last key Syrian territory in 2019.^{[20][21][22][23][24]}

For over a week, IS and the Syrian Democratic Forces fought in Al Sina’a prison. 346 ISIS fighters were killed in the fighting, while the SDF took 154 fatalities while trying to regain control of the now destroyed prison, with assistance of Coalition airstrikes. The SDF arrested 1,100 prisoners. A total of 400 prisoners were found missing in the fighting.^[25][26]