Lebanon and Syria have signed an agreement to transfer over 300 Syrian detainees from Lebanese prisons to continue their ...

BAGHDAD -- The decision to move prisoners of the Islamic State group from northeast Syria to detention centers in Iraq came after a request by officials in Baghdad that was welcomed by the U.S.-led ...

Lebanon and Syria on Friday reached an agreement to transfer over 300 Syrian prisoners from Lebanese prisons to Damascus, in ...

Questions have emerged over the fate of thousands of Islamic State prisoners in northeastern Syria after government forces seized swaths of territory long controlled by Kurdish forces who had been ...

Lebanon said it will hand over some 300 Syrian prisoners out of more than 2,500 being held in Lebanese prisons and detention ...

Lebanon on Friday signed a deal with Syria to transfer around 300 convicted prisoners to Damascus, a step viewed as an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Syrian government says it has taken over control of al-Aqtan prison, a facility in the northeastern city of Raqqa housing a ...

Syria's government forces have taken control of a prison housing Islamic State group members in the country's north.

Baghdad says it will prosecute and try militants from the Islamic State group who are being transferred from prisons and detention camps in neighboring Syria to Iraq under a U.S.-brokered deal.

Lebanon and Syria have reached an agreement to transfer over 300 Syrian prisoners from Lebanese prisons to Damascus, in a ...

Move follows handover of al-Aktan prison in Raqqa as Damascus says it is restoring state authority, ensuring detainees’ legal ...

Lebanon's Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri says relations with Syria have improved significantly since the fall of former ...