Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitors view a recreation of a cell at Military Security Branch 248 containing original items from the facility, at "When the ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The death of a young man with a serious medical condition who was arrested and allegedly beaten by Syrian security forces has stirred up dark memories of torture and other abuse ...

At least 60,000 people have died in Syrian government prisons over the past five years from torture or due to dire humanitarian conditions, including a lack of food, a monitor said Saturday. The head ...

As Syria's president, Bashar Assad, closes in on victory over an eight-year revolt, a secret, industrial-scale system of arbitrary arrests and torture prisons has been pivotal to his success. While ...

GENEVA, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Syria has opened its prisons for the first time to the Red Cross whose officials visited detainees in the central prison in Damascus, the International Committee of the Red ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — At the Damascus International Fair, families posed for selfies, children climbed into an aircraft cockpit and visitors browsed displays of artwork, handicrafts and police ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The death of a young man with a serious medical condition who was arrested and allegedly beaten by Syrian security forces has stirred up dark memories of torture and other abuse in ...