Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman walks past Sednaya prison, dubbed a 'human slaughterhouse' by rights groups, in Sednaya, Syria [Amr Alfiky/Reuters] Syrian ...

In Geneva today the head of the UN’s Human Rights Council called the Syrian city of Aleppo a “slaughterhouse.” Zeid Raad al-Hussein said “Crimes of historic proportions” are being committed by Russian ...

Syrian authorities have said they had arrested a former military official accused of executing detainees at the notorious Sednaya prison during the rule of former President Bashar al-Assad. In a ...