Inside ISIS prison where women were tortured and forced to live in tiny bare cells with no windows

The harrowing conditions inside an ISIS prison where women were tortured has been laid bare after Turkish soldiers stormed the jail this week.

Women were forced to live in bare cells with no windows or lights in the Daesh-run prison in the Syrian city of Al-Bab.

Turkey's military operation, Euphrate Shield, seized the women's jail and freed terrified prisoners.

The organisation was launched to drive Islamic State militants away from Turkey's border and in recent months has been besieging the town of Al-Bab.

It released footage from inside the prison showing the cramped conditions where women were forced to live behind huge steel doors.

Turkish military announced that 56 Islamic State militants were killed in Al-Bab by Turkish forces and US-led coalition air strikes yesterday.

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Turkish gunfire also hit 104 Islamic State targets, including buildings and bombed vehicles the army said in a statement which reiterated it had largely established control in the residential areas of al-Bab.

The Islamic State stronghold, 30 km (20 miles) from the Turkish border, has been a prime target since Turkey launched an incursion with Syrian rebels last August to push the jihadists from its frontier and prevent gains by a Kurdish militia.

Turkey's army said 11 of the jihadists were killed in air strikes by coalition forces, while the rest were killed in artillery fire and clashes during operations in Al-Bab.

Seizing control of Syria's al-Bab from Islamic State is important to wiping out the militant group from its stronghold of Raqqa, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman said on Wednesday

Ibrahim Kalin also said the argument that there was no alternative to the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in the fight against Islamic State was invalid.

Turkey launched Euphrates Shield in August 2016 to maintain border security and confront the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorism.

It also aimed to stop the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist organisation - as well as its affiliates Syrian PYD/YPG - a fait accompli to create autonomous zones on Turkey's doorstep.