Award of Excellence

"The prisoners of Al-Malikiyah"

Al-Malikiyah, northeastern Syria, a town under Kurdish YPG militia control in the province of al-Hasakah. A Syrian (center) and a Turkish fighter (right), both members of the Islamic State Organization, were captured on the Tal Hamis Syrian front by YPG militias, the Syrian equivalent of the Turkish Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK). They are confined in a prison formerly used by the Syrian regime's security services (Mukhabarat).