STORY: When she heard that rebels had toppled Syria’s brutal decades-old regime, Hayat al-Turki went to search for her ...

No other building in the war-torn country of Syria symbolizes the sheer horror of the al-Assad family regime more, its former ...

Drone footage captures the Sednaya prison in the Syrian capital of Damascus, compared with president Bashar al-Assad's luxurious presidential palace. The footage was taken days after Islamist-led ...

Its history of torture and mass killings casts a long shadow, even as Syrians celebrate the downfall of a dynasty ...

Amnesty International described it as a “human slaughterhouse,” where, other rights groups say, tens of thousands of people ...

The Post's Berlin bureau chief Loveday Morris traveled to Sednaya prison outside Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 10, as Syrians ...

Sky News sees bags of faeces, nooses, a torture chamber and an alleged "crushing machine" inside the facility, warned about for years by human rights groups as a symbol of the brutality of the Assad ...

I was detained for 21 years. For 15 of those years, I was forcibly disappeared, with no contact with my family,’ Riyad Avlar ...

Extrajudicial executions carried out at Sednaya through ‘mass hangings,’ international reports show - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Syrian Civil Defence expressed 'profound disappointment' at being unable to find more prisoners following concerns of secret ...

In northern Syria’s Latakia region, opposition fighters set fire to the tomb of Hafez al-Assad, Syria’s longtime ...

Omar Alshogre spent time in Sednaya prison in Syria. He gives a real-life look at what life was like there, and what it was like to escape and live as a civilian.