Amnesty accuses US-backed Syria Kurds of torture, other abuses

The London-based watchdog said Washington too "likely" violated the human rights of detainees in Kurdish custody. Camps and prisons run by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) still hold more than 56,000 detainees with alleged or perceived links to the Islamic State group, five years after the jihadists were ousted from their last territory in Syria. They include jihadist suspects locked up in prisons, and wives and children of IS fighters held in the Al-Hol and Roj internment camps....