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 former Syrian prison official was convicted by a U.S. federal jury in Los Angeles Monday on torture and immigration fraud charges after prosecutors said he oversaw and at times personally carried ...

Erbil, Iraq — CBS News found empty cells and abandoned orange jumpsuits on Monday inside a prison in northeast Syria that, until days ago, held suspected ISIS militants. The incident has highlighted ...

Jan 23 (Reuters) - Syria's Interior Ministry said on Friday it had taken over al-Aktan prison in the city of Raqqa in northeastern Syria, a facility that was formerly under the control of Kurdish-led ...

India, Jan. 21 -- Syria's ministry of interior said on Tuesday that 120 Islamic State members escaped from a prison in northeast Syria a day earlier, amid clashes between Government forces and the ...

A Syrian prison warden screams at a group of chained, crouching inmates in a harrowing scene from one of several Ramadan television series this year that tackle the era of former ruler Bashar al-Assad ...

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) ...