A former Syrian regime official who oversaw brutal torture of prisoners as warden of a prison under former President Bashar ...

Investigators said the government of President Ahmed al-Sharaa had done little to address the extrajudicial killings and ...

By Kanishka Singh and Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted a former Syrian government official, who headed the Damascus Central Prison under the ...

The Syrian war is winding down after seven brutal years, with hundreds of thousands killed, millions displaced and neighborhoods in smoking ruins. President Bashar Assad is on course to win, with help ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guards stand in a corridor in a prison run by the Syrian Democratic Forces and housing alleged ISIL members in Hasakah in ...

Samir Ousman Alsheikh, who was the head of Adra Prison near Damascus, and former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an undated photo. (U.S. Department of Justice via Courthouse News) LOS ANGELES (CN) ...

A landmark case in a Los Angeles federal court ended with a guilty verdict. The defendant was a Syrian officer from the former regime of President Bashar al-Assad. He was charged with torture from the ...

Revisit FRONTLINE’s documentaries on the Syrian war's devastating human toll, the journeys of refugees, the foreign interventions and the long shadow of the conflict.