A handout satellite image shows the Saydnaya prison in Syria. (AFP/Getty Images) Syrian rebels released hundreds of detainees from a prison dubbed the “human slaughterhouse” after seizing the ...

The Kurdish-led force that runs northeast Syria has agreed to integrate into a new national army, but some of its supporters ...

A Syrian Islamist rebel ex-spokesman is to go on trial in France on Tuesday under the principle of universal jurisdiction, ...

The Trump administration's withdrawal of troops from Syria shifts some responsibility for countering ISIS to its partners and ...

Joakim Medin, the special correspondent for the Swedish media Dagens ETC, has been held since 30 March in the high-security ...

When former leader Bashar al-Assad fell, new Syria war crimes investigations began. But U.S. budget cuts have halted some ...

F or miles around, as far as the eye can see, the eastern suburbs of Damascus are a sea of undulating rubble and skeletal ...

Syria's Islamist leaders said on Sunday that Kurdish demands for the country to adopt a decentralised system of government in ...

The U.S. has sent more forces to Syria, tamping down on the immediate threat, but experts warn that the extremist group could break thousands of hardened fighters out of prison. Men accused of ...

During a broadcast, Özlem Gürses appeared to conflate ISIS with Turkish-backed groups in Syria, likely by mistake, which led ...

Asaad Shlash, Hassan Abd Alrahman, Faraj Birkdar and Haitham Alkatreb served long jail terms in the 1990s. Students and ...

Among the ripest targets are prison camps in northeast Syria controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia, that hold about 9,000 Islamic State fighters and 40,000 of ...