U.S. officials prevented catastrophic ISIS prison break in Syria by secretly moving nearly 6,000 "worst of the worst" detainees to Iraq in major operation.

According to the latest ⁠camp data obtained by Reuters, ​dated January 19 - a day before the government took control of the camp - its population was 6,639 families comprising 23,407 ​people, mostly Syrians and Iraqis, as ⁠well as 6,280 foreigners from more than 40 nationalities.

The strikes were part of Operation Hawkeye Strike, which was launched in retaliation for an ISIS ambush that killed two American soldiers and an interpreter.

The Syrian government's move to relocate families linked to Islamic State from the notorious al-Hol camp to the Aleppo countryside is aimed at closing the camp, according to a monitor group and an

Syrian authorities have turned back a group of Australian women and children after they left a camp in Syria housing people with alleged ties to Islamic State militants in an attempt to head back to their home country.

Syria’s Veterinary Syndicate and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have signed a cooperation agreement aimed

The question is whether the Syria on display in Munich is the future or whether hurdles back home could derail its situation. The new Syria was on display at the Munich Security Conference over the

By John Irish MUNICH, Feb 13 (Reuters) - About 3,000 Islamic State detainees have been transferred from Syrian prisons to Iraq and the process is continuing, with Baghdad in talks with other countries to repatriate them soon,