Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's "caliphate" in Baghouz, Syria. Today, they're crammed together: 5,000 presumed jihadists in an overcrowded Kurdish prison in the country's northeast. AFP...

Behind the steel door, the cell is as packed as their eyes are empty -- haggard, scrawny prisoners in orange jumpsuits lying head-to-tail cover every inch of floor space. An AFP team was given rare access to one of the crowded detention facilities in northeastern Syria where Kurdish forces...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Monday in a legal report that the Syrian regime has been practicing 72 torture methods gainast detainees in security chambers and military hospitals.   The 65-page report states that torture in the regime’s...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian security services arrested 12 women in Damascus suburbs over contacting relatives and husbands in the rebel-held northern Syria, local activists said Tuesday. Activist Bara’a Mohamed told Zaman al-Wasl that 12 women from the capital and its suburbs  were...