Inside a jail holding ISIS prisoners in Syria

Syria Shudders as Assad’s Prison Atrocities Come Into the Light

At the country’s most notorious prison, Syrians confront their worst fears: that they will never know what happened to the loved ones who disappeared.

The New York Times - 5h

Past links to ISIS and Al-Qaeda raise fears for some about Syria's new regime

While the

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A look inside Syria's secret drug labs

Some Syrian factories have become secret drug labs that helped fund Bashar Al-Assad's regime. NBC News' Matt Bradley gives us a look inside.

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'I felt like a breathing corpse': Stories from people freed from Syria torture prison

The BBC speaks to men released from Saydnaya prison - a place known as the "human slaughterhouse".

BBC News - 2d

American Travis Timmerman flown out of Syria after release from prison

A U.S. defense official told CBS News that Travis Timmerman was flown out of Syria and into Jordan by the U.S. military and handed over to the State Department.

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Israel instructs army to bolster its position inside Syria

Defence minister calls on IDF to prepare for winter while US and Turkey meet to shore up fight against Isis

Financial Times - 3d

Uncertainty in Syrian prison filled with ISIS supporters after fall of Assad regime

A jail in eastern Syria holds thousands of ISIS prisoners. The prison's warden said the inmates don't know the Syrian regime in Damascus was toppled. The prison is guarded by American-backed Syrian ...

CBS News - 3d

U.S. concerns about ISIS comeback in Syria

Syria is at a crossroads in the wake of Bashar al-Assad's fall, with fears persisting that ISIS could use the collapse of the regime, and a potential power vacuum, to stage a comeback. CBS News ...

CBS News - 3d

WATCH: Inside Syria’s fallen regime

ABC News’ James Longman reports on the fall of the Assad regime and gets up close look inside Assad’s former palace, personal home and infamous prison.

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Tracking Putin's Most Feared Secret Agency---From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond

The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era.

The Wall Street Journal - 3d

Syria: Inside Homs | 60 Minutes Archive

In 2014, 60 Minutes' Bob Simon spoke to a small group of Syrian filmmakers who documented how a peaceful struggle for basic freedoms in the city of Homs turned into violent resistance against ...

CBS News - 3d

Man claims he is American jailed in Syria as Blinken, family members react

A man saying he is Travis Timmerman, an American from Missouri, spoke to CBS News' Elizabeth Palmer after apparently being released from a from a Syrian prison after HTS took over the Assad regime.

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Inside Assad's luxury palace, a modernist sanctuary from the Syria he tore apart

On the outskirts of Syria's capital Damascus, NBC News got a look at former President Bashar al-Assad's palaces.

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Syria rebel leader vows to shut down notorious Assad prisons

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani also said he would dissolve the former regime's security forces, in a statement seen by Reuters.

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'Executed, Executed, Dead From Sickness': The Grim Records From Syria's Notorious Prison

Syrians searching for missing loved ones are scouring the country’s most notorious prison for information and anyone still alive, while bodies of detainees recovered from the prison fill the ...

The Wall Street Journal - 4d

U.S. Strategy on Syria Risks ISIS Resurgence, Kurdish General Warns

Gen. Mazlum Kobani, commander of Kurdish forces in Syria, said recent decisions by the U.S. in Syria potentially “leaves a vacuum” that ISIS could take advantage of.

The New York Times - 4d

Uncertainty over future of Syrian camp holding women, children linked to ISIS

The al-Hol camp in northeast Syria holds about 6,000 women and children, the family members of Islamic State fighters who were either captured or killed. The camp is guarded by American-backed ...

CBS News - 4d

U.S. tries to stop an ISIS comeback after Syrian regime fall

U.S. forces are working to prevent a reemergence of ISIS in Syria after rebels toppled the Assad family's regime. CBS News foreign correspondent Holly Williams has more.

CBS News - 4d

Inside the palace of Syria's deposed dictator

Days after Syria's longtime president, Bashar al-Assad, was driven from power and the country, NBC News' Richard Engel got an inside look at the palace where Assad lived in luxury.

NBC News - 4d

Regime change in Syria raises fears for Kurds and the ISIS prisoners they guard

With the balance of power in northern Syria swinging toward the rebels who toppled the Assad regime, U.S.-backed Kurdish forces and their ability to contain ISIS may now be under threat.

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‘To cough was to risk death’: the artist who mapped Syria’s Sednaya prison with testimonies from its survivors

Warning: this feature contains details of torture As an artist and audio investigator, I interviewed people who had been imprisoned in a building where sound and vision were weaponised. So what ...

The Guardian - 5d

U.S. forces working to prevent reemergence of ISIS in Syria

The U.S. has around 900 troops deployed to Syria to help prevent ISIS from reemerging as concerns rise that extremists could take advantage of the power vacuum in the wake of the Assad regime. CBS ...

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Inside Syria's Sadnaya prison and GOP considers how to push Trump agenda: Morning Rundown

One of Syria’s most notorious jails contains evidence of the Assad regime’s brutal crackdown on dissent.

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US sent Austin Tice 'message' to Syria's HTS rebels emptying Assad prisons

The U.S. is communicating with rebel groups inside Syria amid the search for missing American journalist Austin Tice, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said.

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The Papers: Israel 'sinks navy' in Syria and Rayner to force through jail plans

Strikes carried out by Israel inside Syria and plans to deliver more prison space lead the papers.

BBC News - 5d

Sednaya Prison in Syria: What to Know

Amnesty International described it as a “human slaughterhouse,” where, other rights groups say, tens of thousands of people were detained, tortured and killed during the 13-year civil war.

The New York Times - 5d

Watch live: White House holds press briefing following collapse of Syria's Assad

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will brief reporters Tuesday afternoon as the Biden administration enters the final stretch. The briefing comes days after the collapse of Bashar ...

The Hill - 5d

Inside Syria's notorious Saydnaya prison

ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent James Longman reports at Saydnaya prison, where Syrians are searching for their lost loved ones.

ABC News - 5d

Syria's celebrations muted by evidence of torture in Assad's notorious prisons

In Syria’s capital Damascus the hope of a country freed from its longtime dictator Bashar al Assad was starting to fade at the city's Saydnaya military prison.

NBC News - 5d

Thousands scour Syria's most horrific prison but find no sign of their loved ones

Tens of thousands came to Saydnaya Prison from all over Syria after the fall of former President Bashar Assad to search for their loved ones

ABC News - 6d

Saydnaya Prison: Inside Assad’s ‘human slaughterhouse’

The search for loved ones inside Syria's detention centres

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Inside look at Syria's abandoned presidential palace

Over the weekend, Syrian rebels toppled the Assad regime in a swift and stunning upheaval of power. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer is on the ground in the Syrian capital of ...

CBS News - 6d

Inside the Syrian prison at the heart of Assad’s police state

On the outskirts of Damascus, Saydnaya holds the secrets to the fate of thousands who disappeared under the dictator

Financial Times - 6d

Schiff: Trump jail threat 'about sending a message that no one better hold him to account'

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said President-elect Trump’s threat to throw members of the House committee that investigated rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in jail is a signal "that no ...

The Hill - 6d

Crowds Throng to Syria’s Sednaya Prison to Find Relatives and Friends

The Assad regime ran a network of torture centers that swallowed up tens of thousands of Syrians. Now that the rebels have opened the gates, many see a chance to learn of the detainees’ fates.

The New York Times - Dec. 9

Syrians search notorious Assad jail for underground cells while freed prisoners rejoice

Powerful images have emerged showing Syrians, including women and children, being freed from prisons across the country after the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad.

NBC News - Dec. 9

Inside the hunt for hidden cells in Sednaya prison, Syria’s ‘human slaughterhouse’

Exclusive: The Guardian gains access to Sednaya jail, where prisoners are rumoured to be trapped underground – as desperate relatives wait for news. The celebrations in Damascus were interrupted by ...

The Guardian - Dec. 9

US launches airstrikes against ISIS camps in Syria

The United States has launched airstrikes against ISIS camps in Syria, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement. The operation consisted of “dozens of precision airstrikes” and struck ...

The Hill - Dec. 9

Inside a High-Stakes U.S.-China Prisoner Swap

A Stanford student and a Uyghur activist are among those who waged a long battle to get attention from Washington for family members jailed in China.

The Wall Street Journal - Dec. 7

Inside a jail holding ISIS prisoners in Syria

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