The trial is based on universal jurisdiction, a legal principle that allows suspects to be prosecuted for international offenses such as war crimes even if they are committed in another country. View ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view inside the military police Prison in Aleppo, designated for those who were charged with drug-related crimes. A newly ...

A Syrian doctor, center, accused of torture and war crimes in his Syrian homeland, stands next to his lawyer Oussama Al-Agi, right, in the Higher Regional Court before the verdict is announced in ...

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 ...

A former Syrian regime official who oversaw brutal torture of prisoners as warden of a prison under former President Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorship has been condemned in the U.S. After attempting to ...

The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Syrian man accused of crimes against humanity denied dozens of charges of torture and sexual violence in the opening of his trial in the Netherlands on Wednesday. The ...

He waited for his brother-in-law to cross the front line smuggling documents stolen from the Syrian dictatorship’s archives. Detection could mean dismemberment or death, but they were committed to ...