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Syrians flee city after IS militants attack prison

Hundreds of Syrians fled Hassakeh on Friday as violence escalated between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Islamic State militants. More than 100 IS fighters, using heavy machine guns and vehicles rigged with explosives, attacked a prison in the city on Thursday night. Gweiran...

Syria Kurds hunt down IS jihadists after prison attack

Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria on Friday hunted down Islamic State group fighters after an IS attack on a Kurdish-run prison housing fellow jihadists, a war monitor and Kurdish forces said. The rare attack on Ghwayran prison in Hassakeh province on Thursday saw the jihadists...