Previous arrangements between the Syrian government and the SDF largely centered on temporary ceasefires, the management of contact lines, or narrowly defined security coordination. None evolved into ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive examine environmental stress, psychology, and survival dynamics inside the world’s most dangerous prisons.

For nearly a decade they existed in legal limbo. The Kurds could not try them, nor would they free them. Most Western governments, despite American pressure, refused to take their citizens back. But ...

Power politics has returned to the Western Hemisphere with a vengeance. This was not an isolated military adventure. The US ...

At least 32 people died in ICE custody in 2025, making it the agency’s deadliest year since 2004. In just the first ten days of 2026, four people died in ICE custody. One of these deaths — of a Cuban ...

The arrest of Kazem Hamad in Iraq is welcomed by Australian authorities, although the illicit tobacco trade that built his brutal empire shows no sign of waning.

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Venezuelans spent months in a Salvadoran prison after being sent there by the U.S. Imprisoned men described torture — and research and records back up many of their claims.

SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison Friday in the first verdict from eight criminal trials over the martial law debacle that ...

In a 1974 address to a group of lay Catholics, Pope Paul VI noted that “Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are ...

In April 2022, when 30-year-old Trevor Reed finally came home to Texas after three years in a Russian gulag, he didn’t want to enjoy a cushy life or start college. The Marine veteran wanted revenge — ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — New York enacted new rules on January 1 that change how prison officials account for violence at state-run prisons. The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...