After about twenty days detained, a Syrian prison has released Salim Hamdani, a Jewish antiquities dealer and a well-known ...

Intelligence files found in a Damascus prison complex reveal cases that led to brutal detentions; a wife records a husband.

A man identifying himself as Missourian Travis Timmerman tells CBS News he was liberated from a Syrian prison upon dictator Bashar al-Assad's ouster.

Syrian man, released after more than 5 months in Israeli custody, says he was held without charge and subjected to harsh ...

The lettering "Bundesgerichtshof" and a German federal eagle can be seen on the facade of the main building of the Federal Court of Justice (BGH). Markus Lenhardt/dpa Germany's Federal Prosecutor's ...

A year ago, Syria’s new leader pledged to 'close the notorious prisons' run by Bashar al-Assad. But prisons and detention ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. BERLIN (AP) — A German court sentenced a ...

BERLIN (AP) — A German court sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for torture and war crimes in his Syrian homeland on Monday for killing two people and torturing nine in Syria between 2011 ...