The fortress prison is located between Sulaimani and Dukan, and was built in the 1980s by the former Iraqi regime as a military base. In 2004, US forces renovated the facility and used it to house important prisoners from the rest of Iraq. Photo: defense.gov ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Iraqi government is transferring a number of hardcore prisoners from Baghdad to the Fort Suse prison in the autonomous Kurdistan Region because of a worsening security situation in the capital, a Kurdish official told Rudaw . He said the inmates, from jails in Baghdad and nearby Abu Ghraib, were being transferred as a precautionary measure against the al-Qaeda splinter, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has freed hundreds of hardened militants in a series of daring prison breakouts. “Swapping prisons was according to a decision by the Iraqi government. The prisoners who will be transferred to […]