As many as 60 people, including 35 children, with connections to the UK are in Syrian prisons and camps now engulfed by fighting

Chaos around prisons holding ISIS detainees in Syria is highlighting security risks for U.S. forces in the region.

The move comes as fighting intensifies between the Kurdish-led fighters and forces loyal to the government of President Ahmad al-Sharaa.

"We've requested and demanded guarantees, but as always, the U.S. does not give any," the SDF's political co-chair told Newsweek.

A U.S. airstrike in northwest Syria kills al Qaeda leader Bilal Hasan al-Jasim, linked to the deaths of three Americans.

In the space of two days, the Syrian military, aided by tribal militia, has driven Kurdish forces from wide swathes of northern Syria that they have held for more than a decade.

A convoy of armored vehicles with government forces moved into the al-Hol camp in northeast Syria on Wednesday, following two weeks of clashes with the U.S.

Guards from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces abandoned a camp Tuesday in northeast Syria housing thousands of people linked to the Islamic State group, and the Syrian military said that allowed detainees to escape.