A US indictment unsealed on Monday charged two former high-ranking Syrian officials under ousted President Bashar al-Assad with war crimes, the US Justice Department said in a statement. The indictment, which was unsealed in the Northern District of Illinois, charged the former Syrian...

Syrian opposition fighters told AFP they found around 40 bodies bearing signs of torture inside a hospital morgue near Damascus on Monday, stuffed into body bags with numbers and sometimes names written on them. “I opened the door of the morgue with my own hands, it was a horrific sight:...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel for almost 60 years, would remain Israeli “for eternity”. Speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem, Netanyahu thanked US President-elect Donald Trump for recognizing Israel’s 1981...

Zaman al-Wasl monitored a 40-ton press in Sednaya prison that the regime used to press the bodies of detainees after killing them. One of the people present reported from a detainee in what has become known as the "human slaughterhouse" that the body turns into a few kilograms after being...