U.S.-backed Kurdish-led fighters searched Friday near a Syrian prison for Islamic State group militants as dozens of armed extremists holed up in a small part of the jail, a Kurdish official said.

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Syrian fighters search for IS sleeper cells near prison

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The attack by Islamic State militants on a Syrian prison holding around 3,000 of its fighters and about 700 children is a predictable tragedy spotlighting the need for urgent international action to deal with those allegedly linked to the extremist group in prisons and camps in the country’s northeast, the U.N. counter-terrorism chief said Thursday.Undersecretary-General Vladimir Voronkov told the U.N.

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UN: Syria prison attack shows need to deal with IS detainees

U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces say dozens of armed Islamic State militants remain holed up in the last occupied section of a Syrian prison, The two sides clashed a day after the Syrian Democratic Forces announced they had regained control

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Dozens of armed militants still hold corner of Syria prison

A distressing series of voice notes sent by an Australian teenager from a prison in northeast Syria underscores the plight of thousands of forgotten children who remain trapped in detention facilities in Syria and Iraq. Hundreds of minors are believed to be holed up in Gweiran Prison, which has been at the center of an ongoing violent standoff between Islamic State group militants and U.S.

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EXPLAINER: Who are the kids trapped in Syria prison attack?

The Syrian Democratic Forces said they had regained control of a prison in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasaka days after it was attacked by Islamic State fighters.

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Kurdish-led forces say they have regained control of prison in Syria's Hasaka

U.S.-backed deal aims to ease crippling power shortages by transmitting electricity across neighbouring Syria. Washington assured Beirut it should not fear its sanctions on Damascus. Agreement would supply power-deprived Lebanon with 150 megawatts from midnight to 6 a.m. local time and 250 MW throughout the day.

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Lebanon, Jordan agree to bring electricity through Syria

Fears are growing for hundreds of children in a Syrian prison seized by Islamic State inmates, after six days of clashes with Kurdish-led fighters seeking to regain control of the facility, the United Nations children's agency said on Tuesday.

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UNICEF says fears grow over fate of 850 children in besieged Syrian prison

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Heavy snow and freezing rain have seriously affected about 250,000 displaced Syrians living in camps in the last major opposition stronghold in northwestern Syria, with tents collapsing and children having to walk in the snow in sandals, a senior U.N.

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