Syria said early Friday that government forces had begun transferring Kurdish fighters from a prison in the north where they had been holding ISIS ...
The move comes as Syrian government forces advance into areas previously controlled by Kurdish fighters, bringing them closer to detention centres holding thousands of IS members.
ISIS prisoners escaped from a northeastern Syria prison, and some remain unaccounted for after chaos made tracking impossible ...
The huge al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria for years has posed an intractable problem — a destitute and increasingly ...
The U.S. military has already begun moving ISIS prisoners into Iraq, United States Central Command said Wednesday, which it claimed is necessary to prevent a breakout that would pose a direct threat ...
Thousands of Islamic State group prisoners are being transferred from detention facilities in northeast Syria to Iraq, ...
British-born Islamic State fighters have been evacuated by the US military from Syria to Iraq, where they could face the ...
The U.S. military expects to complete the transfer of up to 7,000 Islamic State detainees from Syrian prisons to Iraq in the coming days, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday, saying hundreds ...
BAGHDAD -- The decision to move prisoners of the Islamic State group from northeast Syria to detention centers in Iraq came ...
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