Isis Detainees

The American military was unable to carry out a plan to transfer about five dozen "high value" Islamic State detainees out of Kurdish-run wartime prisons, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Sunday.

Men and boys from Iraqi villages recaptured from the ISIS group in the operation to retake Mosul have been unlawfully detained, tortured and ill-treated by tribal militia, Amnesty International said Thursday.

The US State Department designated two Russians allied to ISIS as "global terrorists" Wednesday, including a former Guantanamo detainee and a Chechen militant tied to deadly attacks in Moscow.

Amnesty International said on Tuesday Iraq is holding more than 1,000 detainees, some as young as 15, without charge in "inhumane and degrading conditions" at makeshift holding centres in western Anbar province.

Spanish and Moroccan police today arrested four suspected members of a jihadi cell that sought to recruit fighters for ISIS, including one described as a former Guantanamo detainee who once fought with militants in Afghanistan.

Faced with a cash shortage in its so-called caliphate, ISIS has slashed salaries across the region, asked Raqqa residents to pay utility bills in black market American dollars, and is now releasing detainees for a price of $500 a person.

Russia's state security service says it has detained seven people in the country's Ural mountain region on suspicion of terrorist activities.

In revelations that could further embarrass Pakistan, WikiLeaks has released a fresh set of US diplomatic cables that show how the country's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), allowed militants to go to India to carry out strikes on targets chosen by the Pakistan army.The revelations are part of nearly 800 interrogation reports of s...

Lawmakers have demanded an urgent inquiry into UK's complicity in the torture of detainees in Pakistan, Egypt and Uzbekistan.

The American military was unable to carry out a plan to transfer about five dozen "high value" Islamic State detainees out of Kurdish-run wartime prisons, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Sunday.

Men and boys from Iraqi villages recaptured from the ISIS group in the operation to retake Mosul have been unlawfully detained, tortured and ill-treated by tribal militia, Amnesty International said Thursday.

The US State Department designated two Russians allied to ISIS as "global terrorists" Wednesday, including a former Guantanamo detainee and a Chechen militant tied to deadly attacks in Moscow.

Amnesty International said on Tuesday Iraq is holding more than 1,000 detainees, some as young as 15, without charge in "inhumane and degrading conditions" at makeshift holding centres in western Anbar province.

Spanish and Moroccan police today arrested four suspected members of a jihadi cell that sought to recruit fighters for ISIS, including one described as a former Guantanamo detainee who once fought with militants in Afghanistan.

Faced with a cash shortage in its so-called caliphate, ISIS has slashed salaries across the region, asked Raqqa residents to pay utility bills in black market American dollars, and is now releasing detainees for a price of $500 a person.

Russia's state security service says it has detained seven people in the country's Ural mountain region on suspicion of terrorist activities.

In revelations that could further embarrass Pakistan, WikiLeaks has released a fresh set of US diplomatic cables that show how the country's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), allowed militants to go to India to carry out strikes on targets chosen by the Pakistan army.The revelations are part of nearly 800 interrogation reports of s...

Lawmakers have demanded an urgent inquiry into UK's complicity in the torture of detainees in Pakistan, Egypt and Uzbekistan.