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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal grand jury in Los Angeles this week charged a former Syrian military official with several counts of torture allegedly ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A former Syrian military official who oversaw one of the country's most ...

Former Syrian President Bashar Assad's brutal regime of imprisonment and torture is on full display this week as victorious rebels dig through the dictator's now-liberated political prisons. Syrian ...

A man CNN described in a viral report as a rebel prisoner of deposed Syrian President Bashar Assad’s totalitarian regime has turned out to be a notorious ex-intelligence officer for the former ...

A former Syrian prison official was convicted by a U.S. federal jury in Los Angeles Monday on torture and immigration fraud charges after prosecutors said he oversaw and at times personally carried ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — An American who ...

An American who was released this week after being held in a Syrian prison for seven months has been flown out of the country on a U.S. military helicopter, according to a U.S. official who spoke on ...

A Syrian former equestrian champion has told how he was jailed and tortured for 21 years after he beat Bashar al Assad's older brother in a competition. Adnan Kassar, once a celebrated figure in the ...