Former Syrian President Bashar Assad's brutal regime of imprisonment and torture is on full display this week as victorious rebels dig through the dictator's now-liberated political prisons. Syrian ...

Bashar al-Assad's Syrian torture chamber prison is filled with horror stories including prisoners subjected to inhumane treatment before being killed. Sednaya Prison, nicknamed the "Human ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Handcuffed and squatting on the floor, Abdullah Zahra saw smoke rising from his cellmate’s flesh as his torturers gave him electric shocks. Then it was Zahra’s turn. They hanged ...

Warning: This article includes graphic accounts of what some prisoners experienced in Assad's prisons. In the shadow of Syria’s brutal civil war, one institution stands as a chilling symbol of the ...

A former Syrian military official who oversaw one of the country's most notorious prisons during the civil war has been charged with multiple counts of torture, U.S. federal authorities announced on ...

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The last lesson in this Yarmuk elementary school is still on the board, 12 years after the Palestinian camp was engulfed in Syria's civil war — Aris MESSINIS School lessons ended in Syria's biggest ...

Syria was home to one of the first civilizations on earth. Today, the country is picking up the pieces from the ruins of humanity's oldest sin. Half a century of dictatorship between Bashar al-Assad ...

The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open. DAMASCUS, Syria — Handcuffed and squatting on the floor, Abdullah Zahra saw ...