Often mysterious, the graffiti preserves fragments of what the anonymous inmates were thinking as they faced torture and death.

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

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

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 — Books recounting torture in Syrian prisons or texts on radical Islamic theology now sit openly in Damascus bookstores, no longer traded in secret after iron-fisted ruler Bashar al-Ass ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP ... As you walk through the cold, dark cells of Assad’s prisons, the graffiti on the walls cry out. They plead to God and yearn for loved ones. Often mysterious, they ...

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 ...