BEIRUT - Shells smashed into a central prison in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo, killing prisoners, a rights group said Sunday, part of a long battle for control of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Syrian government forces pictured last month near al-Aqtan prison in Raqqa, Syria, where numerous ISIL-linked detainees were held ...

A riot and subsequent fire in a prison in Kobani, a predominantly Kurdish town in northern Syria, resulted in at least seven fatalities. The unrest erupted due to tensions between Kurdish and Arab ...

At least 1,500 ISIS detainees have escaped from a Syrian prison following clashes between the government and Kurdish-led forces, it has been claimed. The figure was reported by the Kurdish-led Syrian ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State blew up a major prison complex in the central Syrian city of Palmyra on Saturday, according to a group monitoring the war, destroying an important symbol of government ...

BEIRUT — Lebanon and Syria will form two committees to decide the fate of the nearly 2,000 Syrian prisoners held in Lebanese jails, locate Lebanese nationals missing in Syria for years and settle the ...

Syria’s judiciary issued its first verdicts on Thursday over last year’s killing of hundreds of members of the Alawite minority on the Syrian ...

"The film explores the experience of imprisonment in Saydnaya Prison, one of the most prominent detention sites associated ...

The Islamic State jihadist group Saturday demolished a prison in the Syrian city of Palmyra, a monitor said, eliminating what was for decades one of the country’s most feared detention centres. The ...

A fire and riot in a prison in a predominantly Kurdish town in northern Syria has killed at least seven people.

PARIS (Reuters) - A French man was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday for having joined an Islamist group in Syria, the first such ruling in France where dozens more returning volunteer ...