Hundreds of IS members escaped a prison amid clashes between Syrian government forces and the SDF, the country's main Kurdish ...

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have fallen from power in Syria as the U.S. shifts its backing to the country's new ...

US troops have transferred 150 Islamic State (IS) prisoners from Syria to Iraq under plans that could see 7,000 detainees ...

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