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CAPTION ADDITION: ADDS DETAILS ABOUT WHICH PRISON HAD RIOTS: FILE - In this April 3, 2018, file photo, prisoners work in a handicraft workshop at a Kurdish-run prison housing former members of the Islamic State group, in Qamishli, northern Syria. A spokesman for Kurdish-led forces in northeastern Syria said Monday, March. 30, 2020, that they have put an end to riots by Islamic State militants in a prison there. The riots broke out late on Sunday in a prison in the town of Hassakeh and lasted several hours. Kurdish authorities run more than two dozen detention facilities scattered around northeastern Syria, holding about 10,000 IS fighters. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

CAPTION ADDITION: ADDS DETAILS ABOUT WHICH PRISON HAD RIOTS: FILE - In this April 3, 2018, file photo, prisoners work in a handicraft workshop at a Kurdish-run prison housing former members of the Islamic State group, in Qamishli, northern Syria. A spokesman for Kurdish-led forces in northeastern Syria said Monday, March. 30, 2020, that they have put an end to riots by Islamic State militants in a prison there. The riots broke out late on Sunday in a prison in the town of Ha…

March 30, 2020

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Activists say IS prisoner riots break out again in Syria
March 30, 2020 1:41 p.m.

Activists say IS prisoner riots break out again in Syria

BEIRUT (AP) — Imprisoned Islamic State militants broke out into riots again on Monday at a jail in northeastern Syria, hours after the Kurdish-led forces running the site said it had restored order, activists said.