Bursting at the seams: inside an IS prison in Syria An AFP team was given rare access to one of the crowded detention facilities in northeastern Syria where Kurdish forces are holding Islamic State group (IS) suspects. With 5,000 inmates -- Syrian, Iraqi, but also British, French, German -- the prison in Hasakeh province is bursting with the flotsam of the international jihadist army IS raised five years ago. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES