Samir Ousman Sheikh allegedly ordered inmates to a wing of a Syrian prison where they were then tortured with a device known as the 'flying carpet.' ...

A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where alleged human rights abuses took place has been charged with several counts of torture after being arrested in July for visa fraud ...

LOS ANGELES — A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where alleged human rights abuses took place has been charged with several counts of torture after being arrested in July for ...

OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP/AFP The former head of a notorious Syrian prison was charged Thursday in the United States with torturing opponents of the now-collapsed government of Bashar al-Assad ...

Asma al-Assad married ex-Syrian dictator Bashar in the early 2000s (Picture: AFP) The British wife of ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is reportedly so ill with cancer that she can’t be in ...

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles this week charged a former Syrian military official with several counts of torture allegedly committed at a prison he oversaw for years. Samir Ousman Sheikh ...

(AP Photo/Hussein Malla) LOS ANGELES (CN) — The former head of a Syrian prison, already jailed in California ... from about 2005 through 2008. He is charged with ordering his subordinates to inflict ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Syrian military official who oversaw a prison where alleged human rights abuses took place has been charged with several counts of torture after being arrested in ...