HRW: Hundreds of Boys Missing from Syrian Kurdish Prison

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that hundreds of boys went missing from a Syrian Kurdish prison where ISIS members and their families were being held.

The children in Ghweran prison in northeastern Syria come from a mixture of backgrounds and nationalities, and some were brought from their countries by their jihadist parents who joined the so-called “Caliphate” declared in 2014 over parts of Syria and Iraq, while others were born there.

They have been imprisoned because many governments have refused to return them, while local Kurdish authorities have expressed concern that they may have extremist tendencies.

It is not clear how many boys in prison have been trained by ISIS, or whether any of them have committed crimes.

This, and the human rights organization's report comes a day after the killing of ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi in a US raid on his safe house in northwest Syria.