The Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), which are mostly made up of Iranian-backed militias, have now deployed to the border.

Syria chaos sparks ISIS security crisis as 150 detainees relocated to Iraq amid prison breaks. Kurdish forces withdraw from detention facilities.

U.S.-backed SDF forces and the Syrian government have traded blame over the escape Monday of ISIS members from the Shaddedeh prison on the border with Iraq.

PMF chief Faleh Al-Fayyad says Iraq faces no US pressure to transfer ISIS detainees from Syria, confirming receipt of 140 suspects as a first batch.

Sen. Lindsey Graham and former Secretary Mike Pompeo warn of dire threats to Syrian Kurds as Syrian forces attack Kurdish-controlled territory in northern Syria.

The crisis in Syria is affecting Kurds all over the world, primarily due to the fear that members of the Syrian government’s security forces may commit abuses amid the new offensive. Kurdish protesters took to the streets across the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq on Monday night amid increasing reports about clashes in Syria between the forces of the Syrian transitional government and those of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.