Samir Ousman Sheikh allegedly ordered inmates to a wing of a Syrian prison where they were then tortured with a device known as the 'flying carpet.' ...

By Adam Goldman Reporting from Washington A federal grand jury in Los Angeles charged a former Syrian government official on Thursday with torturing political dissidents at a notorious prison in ...

A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where alleged human rights abuses took place has been charged with several counts of torture after being arrested in July for visa fraud ...

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

Judicial official Hassan is the highest-ranking officer whose arrest has been announced since Assad was ousted on December 8. The confirmation of his detention by the Syrian Observatory for Human ...

A freed Syrian prisoner, left, hugs his brother after being released from Adra Prison on the northeast outskirts of Damascus, Syria (AP/Muzaffar Salman) A former Syrian military official who ...

He was charged with 58 murders as well as rape ... Prosecutors were encouraged by the conviction last year of another Syrian official as part of the same trial. Eyad-al-Gharib, who helped to ...

OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP/AFP The former head of a notorious Syrian prison was charged Thursday in the United States with torturing opponents of the now-collapsed government of Bashar al-Assad ...

Tucker Carlson has officially started defending Syrian ex-President Bashar Al Assad because ... Mangione is also charged with possession of forged instruments, several counts of weapons possession ...

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles this week charged a former Syrian military official with several counts of torture allegedly committed at a prison he oversaw for years. Samir Ousman Sheikh ...