A former Syrian military official convicted of torturing prisoners during President Bashar Assad’s regime is facing a possible decades-long prison sentence in the U.S. A federal judge in Los Angeles is scheduled to sentence Samir Ousman Alsheikh on Thursday. A jury found him guilty in March of one count of conspiracy to commit torture and
Georgetown University law student Tice, who had served as a US Marines captain, was last seen in a video – blindfolded and in apparent distress – posted more than a month after his capture. As the regime fell 12 years later, tens of thousands of people emerged from the administration’s prisons. Tice was not one
Lebanon has handed Syria a former general who served under the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad, in the first extradition of its kind since his government fell. Maj Gen Adel Issa, 67, is accused of a raft of crimes allegedly committed during the Syrian civil war, which ended in December 2024 when rebel forces took
