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US-led coalition says allies foil Islamic State prison break

Islamic State militants attempted to break out of a detention facility in northeastern Syria but U.S.-backed Syrian fighters "successfully" restored calm, activists and the U.S-led coalition said Saturday. Few details emerged about what transpired a day earlier in the detention facility in...

The bitter legacy of Islamic State

From the Australian children begging to return, to the broken bodies of Kurdish soldiers and the broken politics of Syria, IS's vengeful ideology is still blighting the lives of thousands. The small Australian enclave in al-Hawl camp in northern Syria lies on the edge of a giant sea...

US-led coalition says allies foil Islamic State prison break

The U.S.-led coalition says its Syrian allies have successfully dealt with an “incident” at a detention center in northeastern Syria which activists described as an attempted prison break by Islamic State militants. Col. Scott Rawlinson, coalition spokesman, said Saturday all detainees...