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Foreign Affairs · Mar 18, 2022

UNICEF team visits children in Syria prison after IS attack

The U.N. children's agency says officials from the group have visited a prison in northeast Syria that witnessed 10 days of fighting between U.S.-backed fighters and Islamic State group militants

The Independent UK · Feb 6, 2022

Watchdog says 100s of boys missing from Kurdish Syria prison

An international human rights group says hundreds of boys are missing from a Syrian Kurdish prison that held members of the Islamic State group and their families, after the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces fought IS militants for 10 days to retake the facility

The Independent UK · Feb 4, 2022

Lebanon, Jordan agree to bring electricity through Syria

Lebanon signed a U.S.-backed deal with Jordan on Wednesday that aims to ease crippling power shortages by transmitting electricity across neighbouring Syria, after Washington assured Beirut it should not fear its sanctions on Damascus.

Reuters · Jan 26, 2022

Syrian Kurdish forces free hostages amid IS prison attack

U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces say they have freed nine of their troops held hostage by Islamic State militants leading an assault on one of the largest detention facilities in northeastern Syria

The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2022

Syria Kurdish forces close in on IS-controlled prison wing

U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces and a war monitor say fighters have begun closing in on the last wing of a prison in northeastern Syria that has been controlled by militants for days

The Independent UK · Jan 24, 2022

Standoff near Syrian prison holding IS militants continues

U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces say clashes with militants are continuing for a fourth day near a prison in northeastern Syria that houses thousands of members of the Islamic State group

The Independent UK · Jan 23, 2022

IS gunmen mount deadly attacks in Syria, Iraq; dozens killed

Members of the Islamic State group have launched two sophisticated, deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq, including an attempt to break into a prison where suspected extremists are being held by U.S.-backed fighters

The Independent UK · Jan 21, 2022

Islamic State militants attack prison in Syria's al-Hasaka, U.S.-backed SDF says

Islamic State militants attacked a prison in Syria's al-Hasaka in an attempt to free prisoners belonging to the group who had mutinied, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement on Thursday.

Reuters · Jan 20, 2022