Australian teenager dies in northeast Syria prison - rights group

FILE PHOTO: A guard opens a door inside a prison that holds foreign prisoners, suspected of being part of the Islamic State, in Hasaka, Syria, January 7, 2020. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic/File Photo

An Australian teenager detained in northeast Syria after living as a child under Islamic State (ISIS) rule has died in unclear circumstances, New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch said.

The rights group on Monday cited family members as saying an Australian government official had informed them Yusuf Zahab, who would have been 18 in April, had died from causes that were "unclear".