A fragile truce reached this week between the Syrian government and Kurdish-led fighters was seen as a blow by many Kurds in their hard-won fight for autonomy.

The huge al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria for years has posed an intractable problem — a destitute and increasingly dangerous detention site where ISIS ideology lives on.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan says eliminating separatist terror threat in northern Syria will bring relief to entire region - Anadolu Ajansı

The move comes as fighting intensifies between the Kurdish-led fighters and forces loyal to the government of President Ahmad al-Sharaa.

Kurdish-led fighters have long guarded facilities holding Islamic State detainees or their families, after the caliphate the group tried to establish was defeated in 2019.

As many as 60 people, including 35 children, with connections to the UK are in Syrian prisons and camps now engulfed by fighting

ISIS-K claims responsibility for deadly suicide blast at Chinese restaurant in Kabul, killing seven people, including one Chinese national.

Myles Caggins, former spokesperson for the US-led Global Coalition to Defeat the Islamic State (ISIS), said Monday that the situation in northeast Syria (Rojava) is “extreme,” warning of a potential resurgence by the extremist group amid what he described as limited US engagement.