Iraq seeks to send 6,000 foreign prisoners home
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s Justice Ministry has begun approaching 61 countries about repatriating nearly 6,000 of their nationals held…
Plan to guard notorious Israeli prison with crocodiles stalled over animal welfare concerns
A legal battle has erupted in Israel over a government plan to build a moat around a prison…
Pressure Builds Over Israel’s Treatment of Palestinian Prisoners
As Hamas fighters swarmed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the power suddenly went out in a remote…
Lebanon to transfer 127 prisoners to Syria amid Atef Najib trial
A new group of Syrian prisoners in Lebanon, consisting of 128 inmates, will be transferred to Syria as…
Berlin exhibition exposes horrors of Syria’s Sednaya prison
A digital exhibition in Berlin is giving visitors rare insight into the brutal and sombre architecture of Syria’s…
Syria’s integration process with SDG continues in northeast
The integration process between Syria’s government and the SDG (Syrian Democratic Forces) is moving forward in the country’s…
Syria and SDF exchange 300 prisoners in Hasaka
Syrian authorities and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) each released 300 detainees from the other side in…
Lebanon transfers 137 Syrian prisoners under bilateral agreement
The Syrian inmates were released from the Roumieh and Qobbeh prisons near Beirut and Tripoli [Getty/file photo] Lebanon…