A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted former Syrian official Samir Ousman Alsheikh for torture and immigration fraud. Alsheikh, who led the Damascus Central Prison, faces multiple counts of torture ...

The former head of Syria's largest civil prison was found guilty of ordering the torture of inmates who refused his orders to harm political prisoners of the Assad regime.

BEIRUTBEIRUT — Children held in a prison in northeast Syria that witnessed 10 days of fighting between U.S.-backed fighters and Islamic State group militants are living in “incredibly precarious” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women and children seen inside al-Hol camp, amongst them some 6,200 women and children from around 40 nationalities, and including ...

The Syrian government says it has taken over control of al-Aqtan prison, a facility in the northeastern city of Raqqa housing a number of ISIL (ISIS) detainees, following the withdrawal of Kurdish-led ...

RAQQA, Syria (AP) — Syrian government forces took control Friday of a prison housing members of the Islamic State group in the north of the country, after hundreds of Kurdish fighters who were ...