Syrian army official who oversaw the notorious Adra Prison has been charged in the U.S. with torture after being arrested in L.A.

In his New Year speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping threatened that "no one can stop the reunification" of Taiwan with China ...

Photographs and text by Lynsey Addario More than 600,000 Syrians died during 13 years of civil war. At least 100,000 more went missing. They were mostly men, taken to prisons and torture centers ...

After the Civil War, the South’s economy ... and to support new expenses such as universal public education. The prison problem was especially challenging, as most prisons had been destroyed ...

The foreign ministers from Germany and France visited the notorious Sednaya prison near Damascus on Friday, a symbol of the ...

Hundreds protested in Lebanon's second city Tripoli on Sunday, demanding that authorities release Islamists detained during ...