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 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 ...

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 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 ...

(AP Photo/Hussein Malla) LOS ANGELES (CN) — The former head of a Syrian prison, already jailed in California ... from about 2005 through 2008. He is charged with ordering his subordinates to inflict ...