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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Six Syrian rebels have been killed in clashes with supporters of ousted president Bashar al-Assad while trying to arrest a former government official, a British-based war monitor reports.

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 ...