Is ISIL on the verge of becoming a regional threat once again?
The US has transferred thousands of detainees linked to the group from Syria to Iraq.

The US has transferred thousands of detainees linked to the group from Syria to Iraq.









Women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi was arrested in December while attending a memorial ceremony in Mashhad.
Palestinian woman in custody for nearly a year is hospitalised in the US after a seizure at detention facility.
Jorge Rodriguez told family members of Venezuelan political prisoners that they would be freed on February 13.
Artemy Ostanin sentenced to more than five years in a penal colony after joking about a ‘legless’ war veteran.

Venezuelan human rights activist Javier Tarazona has been freed after more than four years.
Rodriguez calls for healing ‘wounds left by political confrontation’ and says notorious El Helicoide prison to shut.
Israelis held captive in Gaza and Palestinians swept into Israel detention centres have been focus of ceasefire talks.

Police carried out mass arrests after a peaceful protest outside a London prison in support of hunger-striking detainee.
A Yemeni man Ali Hassan Ali who spent more than two years in detention in secret prisons seeks justice.
SDF chief Abdi urged US-led coalition to ‘bear responsibilities’ for securing facilities coming under gov’t control.