A former regime official has been sentenced to life in prison by a US court in Los Angeles, and a federal jury has indicted Samir Othman al-Sheikh, who oversaw Syria's notorious Adra prison. According to court records, the 72-year-old al-Sheikh was the head of the central prison in Damascus...

The demonstrators raised victory slogans on the first Friday after the fall of the ousted Assad regime, as the number of demonstrators in Al-Asi Square in the center of Hama reached about half a million Syrians. Mustafa Al-Hamawi told Zaman Al-Wasl, "Today is a great victory day, today is...

The camera captured the inhumane conditions in which detainees were held in the cells of Mezzeh Military Prison in the Syrian capital, Damascus. The footage showed the personal belongings of detainees still in the prison, which the detainees were released from after the fall of the...

UN experts called on Iran’s government to immediately repeal a new law that from Friday imposes a series of new penalties on women and girls who fail to wear a hijab. “The new hijab law marks an intensification of state control over women’s bodies in Iran and is a further assault on...