ISIS

Chaotic Closure of a Huge ISIS Detention Camp Is Testing Syria’s Regime

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The Syrian government is moving to close a detention camp that held tens of thousands of people including family members of suspected Islamic State fighters, after unrest threatened its grip on the facility just weeks after taking it over. Al-Hol detention camp in northeast Syria. Responsibility for the al-Hol detention camp changed hands in January, … Read more

U.S. moving 7,000 ISIS suspects from Syria to Iraq amid concerns over security and due legal process

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Erbil, Iraq — The U.S. military is in the process of transferring nearly 7,000 ISIS suspects from prisons and jails in northeast Syria to detention facilities across the border into Iraq. The operation comes amid concerns over security, following a mass escape from at least one prison in Syria, but it is also raising concern over … Read more