The Syrian civil defence group known as the White Helmets says it is investigating reports from survivors of the country's ...

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

The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A prison riot in Mozambique's capital Maputo left 33 people dead and 15 injured, the country's police general commander Bernardino Rafael said on Wednesday, as civil unrest linked to October's ...