A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial ...

Amir Daftari is a Newsweek reporter based in London, specializing in global affairs with a focus on the Middle East. He joined Newsweek in 2024 from the United Nations and has previously worked at ...

Sharaa, revealed in a podcast with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart that he was imprisoned in Iraq, moving between four ...

Despite concerns around the destruction of documents and other indications of serious crimes committed in Syria under Bashar ...

In a desolate expanse of north-east Syria, where there is little more than dirt and dust, the sprawling Al-Hol camp rises ...

Since 2011, thousands of detainees died due to incarceration conditions or were tortured or executed in nightly mass hangings. Built on a hill 30 kilometers from Damascus, the Saidnaya prison has ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP ... dark cells of Assad’s prisons, the graffiti on the walls whisper and cry around you. They plead to God and yearn for loved ones. Often mysterious, they are haunting ...

DAMASCUS, Jan 18 (Reuters ... about the tens of thousands whose loved ones were held in Assad's notorious prison system and whose fate remains unknown. "I have a lot in common with a lot ...

Debra Tice gave a news conference in Damascus on Monday after the meeting ... missing after being held in the old regime’s notorious prisons. “It was so wonderful to learn that they are ...