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Syrian forces take control of prison housing IS members after Kurdish fighters evacuate

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 ...
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IS fighters flee prison as Syria's army clashes with SDF

Hundreds of IS members escaped a prison amid clashes between Syrian government forces and the SDF, the country's main Kurdish-led force.Here are the latest developments in Syria: Ceasefire talks held ...
WUNC

Former Syrian prison chief convicted in landmark torture trial in LA

A landmark case in a Los Angeles federal court ended with a guilty verdict. The defendant was a Syrian officer from the former regime of President Bashar al-Assad. He was charged with torture from the ...
Reuters

Kurdish-led SDF says armed group attacks Islamic State prison as Syrian forces tighten grip

Jan 19 (Reuters) - The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said on Monday that forces affiliated with the Syrian government attacked Shaddadi prison in Hasaka in Syria's northeast, where it said ...
NPR

'I stayed in this room for over a year and a half,' former inmate at Syria's Sednaya prison returns

An inmate who was imprisoned for 21 years in Syria's notorious Sadnaya prison shows NPR's Jane Arraf the concrete cells where he was held. How does a country heal from decades of brutal dictatorship?
PBS

Syrian forces take control of prison holding IS detainees after Kurdish fighters evacuate

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 ...