‘Mass escape’ occurred before IS-linked camp in Syria was closed

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A now-closed camp that housed thousands of people with suspected links to the Islamic State group in ...

Iraq says Ankara agrees to take back Turkish citizens among IS detainees moved from Syria

Feb 23 (Reuters) - Iraq's foreign minister said on Monday Turkey had agreed to take back Turkish citizens from among ...

Iraq's FM says Ankara agreed to take back Turkish citizens among IS detainees moved from Syria

Iraq took in the detainees in an operation arranged with the United States after Kurdish forces retreated and shut down camps ...

A notorious camp in Syria tied to alleged IS families is emptied as final convoy departs

Officials say Syria has emptied the al-Hol camp, long known for holding women and children with alleged links to the Islamic ...

Syria confirms 'mass escape' from ISIS-linked camp

The camp housed around 23,500 detainees, many wives or widows of ISIS fighters and their children, who had been in de facto ...

Australia rejects report it is repatriating families of IS militants from Syrian camp

Feb 22 (Reuters) - Australia's centre-left government on Sunday rejected a local media report that said it was working to ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

'Mass escape' occurred before Islamic State-linked camp in Syria was closed

A now-closed camp in northeast Syria saw “mass escape” of people there, raising fresh fears about Islamic State-linked ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Children in Syrian camp for ISIS-linked families speak of hopes to return to Australia

The Australian children stuck in a Syrian refugee camp have talked about their families' failed attempt to leave last week. Some of them told the ABC their brief journey outside of the camp last week ...

Syria faces twin battles as Assad loyalists and ISIL attack in west, east

Clashes between Syrian internal security forces and a militia linked to the ousted government of Bashar al-Assad have left at ...

Islamic State lashes out at Syria’s interim president as ‘puppet without a soul,’ urges new attacks

The Islamic State group has released a new audio message that attacks Syria’s interim president and urges supporters to ...

EU memo raises security concerns over mass escape from IS-linked Syria camp

By Lili Bayer BRUSSELS, Feb 24 (Reuters) - An EU internal memo has raised security concerns about the escape of thousands of people from a detention camp holding relatives of suspected Islamic State ...

A camp in Syria that held families of Islamic State members is nearly empty after repatriations

Officials say that a camp in northeastern Syria that had housed families of suspected members of the Islamic State group is now largely empty after hundreds of women and children were repatriated to t ...