ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq -  Clashes between Kurdish-led and Damascus-affiliated forces pose an “imminent danger” to prisons holding Islamic State (ISIS) members in Raqqa province, the Kurdish Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) warned on Saturday.

Kurdish-led and Damascus-affiliated forces have clashed several times since the year started with the worst being in Aleppo’s Kurdish-majority neighborhoods earlier in January that saw hundreds of civilians killed and over 150,000 displaced. The fighting has now erupted in Raqqa, the former de facto capital of ISIS in Syria.

AANES warned of "the imminent danger to the prison holding ISIS terrorist detainees in the city of Raqqa. Due to the continuation of military attacks around the area, the security situation of the prison may become unstable and become a real danger of reactivating the scenes of the terrorist organization."

The Rojava autonomous administration said in a Saturday statement “that protecting detention centers and refugee camps, primarily ISIS detainee prisons, is a collective responsibility and requires the immediate cessation of all forms of violations and attacks, respect for international humanitarian law, and ensuring the safety of civilians and vital institutions.”

The administration said that the jeopardizing the prison poses a security threat not only to northeast Syria, but to Syria as a whole, the region, and the entire world as well.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is the de facto army in northeast Syria (Rojava) and the US-led coalition’s main partner on the ground. It is in charge of many camps and prisons holding ISIS affiliates and family members which Kurdish authorities have repeatedly called a ticking time bomb, urging countries to repatriate their nationals.

The fighting has spilled over to Raqqa despite SDF chief Mazloum Abdi announcing late Friday that they decided to withdraw from areas in eastern Aleppo, where clashes with Damascus-linked factions frequently took place, in a show of “good faith” in completing the integration process in accordance with a March 10 Agreement to integrate the Kurdish-led force with Syria's state security apparatus.

Abdi and US Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack arrived in Erbil on Saturday to discuss the conflict in Syria with top Kurdistan Region leaders, including President Masoud Barzani, Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani.

The new authorities in Damascus have repeatedly been criticized for failing to protect minorities.