A man who tried to set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers has been jailed for nine years, the joint-longest prison ...

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Alois Brunner, once the world's most wanted Nazi, spent his final years in a cell in Damascus, where he was given the choice ...

A Dutch court has sentenced a woman to ten years in prison for joining the so-called Islamic State in Syria and keeping a ...

Video - 'The human slaughterhouse' was the nickname given to Syria's Saydnaya jail, one of the world's worst prisons.

Former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and Miriam Vogel, president and CEO of EqualAI, survey how AI both ...

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Ducharme asked for 14 years, the maximum sentence available for stabbing Zaya Ballo, 37, who remains in long-term care, ...

Syria's White Helmet want Assad to hand over maps of secret prisons as they race against time to release prisoners. Read more ...

Today is International Human Rights Day, Normally, it should be an occasion to celebrate the work of those who strive to ...

A free Syria is a blessing after Assad's fall. And though the future is uncertain, Syrians are determined to shape their ...

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