Residents tell The National they have gone days without food, as Damascus and SDF trade blame over security vacuum at ISIS-linked site Thick black smoke billowed from Al Hol camp in north-east Syria, the country’s largest centre housing families with alleged links to ISIS, as unrest spread among residents who …

US Central Command (CENTCOM) launched a new mission today, Wednesday 21 January, to transfer Islamic State detainees from northeastern Syria to Iraq. CENTCOM said the move aims to help ensure the “terrorists” remain in secure detention facilities, adding that the operation began when US forces successfully transferred 150 Islamic State …

Washington Institute experts assess the immediate fallout of the Syrian government’s advance into SDF-held parts of the northeast, including mutual disinformation campaigns, implications for the Islamic State threat, the terms of new agreements with the Kurds, and the calculus of outside actors like the United States, Israel, and Turkey. As …