Monitor: Clashes Near Syria Prison Hit by Islamic State

HASAKAH, SYRIA - Clashes broke out Saturday between Kurdish forces and Islamic State group fighters near a Syrian prison where dozens of jihadists are still holed up, a war monitor said.

An IS assault on the sprawling Ghwayran prison complex near the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah on January 20 sparked days of heavy fighting that has left some 260 people dead, and a bulldozer Saturday shoveled corpses onto a