At Sednaya Prison, the most infamous among all Syrian detention facilities for the brutality committed within its walls, tens of thousands are believed to have been killed through torture and ...

More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture or ...

Hassan Abou Hayleh, 39, who assaulted 19-year-old woman, suffers from PTSD after being tortured, his lawyer says ...

PHUONG PHAM is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Guards stand in a corridor Syrian Democratic Forces-run Gweiran Prison, now called Panorama, which houses men accused of being an Islamic State (ISIS) fighters in Hassakeh, northeastern Syria ...

Militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party have declared a ceasefire, in what may represent a significant political ...

The imprisoned leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party has called on his group to disarm and disband in a bid to end 40 ...

Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his militant group to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of l ...

Hamas says it will return the bodies of four Israeli hostages early Thursday in exchange for Israel releasing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners ...

Eyewitnesses say officers and soldiers were executed by firing squad, civilians were hanged; bodies buried in seven mass ...