New tensions flared a day after a Kurdish-led militia agreed to hand over control of prisons holding some 8,000 Islamic State fighters to the Syrian government. By Christina Goldbaum Clashes erupted ...

Seven officers were killed and dozens were taken hostage in a coordinated series of prisoner uprisings at three notorious Guatemalan detention centers, followed by a spate of attacks against police in ...

ESCUINTLA, Guatemala/GUATEMALA CITY, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Guatemalan security forces were working to take back control of three prisons on Saturday after rioting inmates took at least 46 people hostage, ...

As protests spread across Iran and security forces intensify their crackdown, former political prisoners are warning that what is visible on the streets represents only a fraction of the violence ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As protests spread across Iran and security forces intensify their crackdown, former political prisoners are warning that what is ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Before sunrise, Jesús Ramos dropped to one knee, put a ring of yarn around Victoria’s finger and asked her to marry him. “It was an easy yes,” she said this month. The couple ...

Islamic State group militants escaped from a prison in eastern Syria amid a chaotic transfer of control between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian government on Monday, ...

An inmate at the York County Prison died in his cell this week in what is being investigated as a suicide. The deceased, 34-year-old Adam Miller, had been held at the facility since January 3 on a ...

Venezuela is set to release hundreds of political prisoners and close down a notorious facility as part of an amnesty bill being championed by acting President Delcy Rodriguez. “May this law serve to ...

U.S.-allied forces guarding prisons holding thousands of Islamic State group militants in northeastern Syria said Monday that they had lost control of one of the facilities after fighting broke out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women and children queue during a joint security operation by Syria Amid fighting there are concerns ISIS detainees held in Syria ...