A macabre torture machine used to crush bodies has been discovered in a Syrian prison nicknamed the “human slaughterhouse.”. Video of the “iron press” was posted online as rebels freed ...

Footage emerging from the liberation of Bashar al-Assad’s most notorious prisons has revealed that the Syrian dictator used underground cells and body-crushing iron presses to detain and torture ...

Syrian rebels have freed prisoners — including toddlers — from a jam-packed notorious prison dubbed the “human slaughterhouse,” where the Assad regime allegedly used an “iron press ...

Syrian rebels are racing to free thousands of prisoners from a jail labelled a "human slaughterhouse" after the fall of the Assad regime - with images of a horrific torture instrument surfacing. Many ...

Saydnaya military prison is Syria's most notorious gulag, a dungeon of tiny concrete cells nicknamed "the human slaughterhouse." During the Assad family's 50-year rule, prisoners were "regularly ...

A German court has sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment for torture and war crimes in his homeland for killing two people and torturing nine in Syria between 2011 and 2012.

LOS ANGELES — A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where human rights officials say torture and abuse routinely took place has been arrested, authorities said Wednesday.

Samir Ousman al-Sheikh, 72, who served as the head of Syria's Adra Prison between 2005 and 2008 under the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, is accused by a U.S. grand jury of overseeing brutal ...

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 ...

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and JAIMIE DING LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where human rights officials say torture and abuse routinely took place has been ...