New Delhi, Jan. 22 -- Recent fighting between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria got close to detention facilities where thousands of Islamic State group members are held.

The U.S. military says that it has started the process of transferring many of them to secure locations in Iraq.

Syrian government forces have taken control of one of the detention facilities where about 9,000 IS members are held in Syria. About 120 inmates fled from the Shaddadeh prison on Monday near the Iraqi border. Syrian authorities say that most of them have been recaptured.

During the battles that the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, fought against IS over the past decade, thousands of fighters of different nationali...