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U.S. Moving Some Islamic State Prisoners from Syria to Iraq
(CNN) Nadeen Ebrahim - Syrian government forces have seized swaths of territory long controlled by Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria where tens of thousands of Islamic State detainees and their families are being held in prisons and camps. On Wednesday, U.S. forces transferred 150 ISIS fighters from a detention facility in Hasakah to a "secure location" in Iraq. Under the new mission, up to 7,000 ISIS detainees could ultimately be moved from Syria to Iraqi-controlled facilities, the U.S. military said.