The Syrian Transitional Government has reached a rather unexpected agreement with the Kurdish armed groups of the Arab ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

In northern Syria, around 10,000 alleged ISIS fighters are locked away in 28 jails, the largest of which is Al Sina Prison on the edge of the small city of Hasakah. Crowded in the drab ...

[VIDEO] Former GHS D-G gives compelling reasons why politicians must be banned f ...

After 26 years in prison, Ocalan has called on the PKK to disarm, dissolve and pursue a political struggle — provided Turkey commits to resolving the Kurdish issue through peaceful and ...

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An old prison in Laval, Que., will be turned into affordable housing, the Government of Canada has confirmed. In a press release Saturday, federal Minister of Public Services and Procurement and ...

Before the early 1990s, people who were sentenced to 10 years in prison might be released after serving roughly half that long. That’s because of policies that allowed incarcerated individuals ...

The prison memo was issued on the same day that a new group of transgender women rushed to court to try to stop their transfer from all-female prisons to all-male facilities, saying that the move ...