There was no mistaking the reek of death that rose along the Syrian desert highway four nights a week for nearly two years. It was the smell of thousands of bodies being trucked from one mass grave to another, secret location. Drivers were forbidden to leave their cabs. Mechanics and...

Hamas handed over to Israel the remains of one more hostage on Friday night, after insisting it was committed to returning all the dead captives still unaccounted for under Gaza’s ruins after two years of war. “Israel received, via the Red Cross, the coffin of a deceased hostage who was...

A Lebanese judge on Friday ordered the release of Hannibal Gaddafi, son of longtime Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, on bail after nearly a decade of pre-trial detention in Lebanon, a judicial official said. After questioning Gaddafi, the judge ordered his release “on $11 million bail and...

Zaman al-Wasl Arabic publishes the names of thousands of detainees killed in the State Security torture chambers, who were handed over to the governorate's burial office by al-Mujtahid Hospital (Damascus) between 2011 and 2013. These documents are being published for the first time, as the...