BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 30 (UPI) --Lebanon will hand over some 300 Syrian prisoners out of more than 2,500 being held in Lebanese prisons and detention facilities, Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri said ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guards stand in a corridor in a prison run by the Syrian Democratic Forces and housing alleged ISIL members in Hasakah in ...

RAQQA, Syria (AP) — Syrian government forces took control Friday of a prison housing members of the Islamic State group in the north of the country, after hundreds of Kurdish fighters who were ...

A Kurdish fighter released from Syrian government custody has alleged systematic torture and arbitrary detentions, saying ...

As many as 1,500 detainees have been released from prisons run by the SDF group in northeastern Syria in four batches, a ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Cabinet on Friday approved an agreement to transfer Syrian prisoners serving their sentences in Lebanon back to their home country. The issue of prisoners has been a sore point ...

EXCLUSIVE: This was the kind of prison break officials say could have changed the region, and perhaps even the world, overnight. Nearly 6,000 ISIS detainees, described by a senior U.S. intelligence ...

Samir Ousman Alsheikh, who was the head of Adra Prison near Damascus, and former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an undated photo. (U.S. Department of Justice via Courthouse News) LOS ANGELES (CN) ...

BAGHDAD -- Baghdad will prosecute and try militants from the Islamic State group who are being transferred from prisons and detention camps in neighboring Syria to Iraq under a U.S.-brokered deal, ...

BAGHDAD — Inside a heavily guarded detention facility in Baghdad, men from scores of different countries and nationalities were brought one after another into interrogation rooms and questioned by ...

BEIRUT — Lebanon and Syria signed an agreement Friday to transfer more than 300 Syrians from Lebanese prisons to continue serving their sentences in their home country, a step that will likely help ...