A former Syrian military official who oversaw one of the country's most notorious prisons during the civil war has been charged with multiple counts of torture, U.S. federal authorities announced ...

Samir Ousman al-Sheikh, who oversaw Syria’s infamous Adra Prison from 2005 to 2008 under recently ousted President Bashar Assad, was charged by a federal grand jury with several counts of ...

Samir Alsheikh, a former Syrian prison head ... and was appointed governor of Deir Ez-Zour province by President Bashar al-Assad in 2011. He entered the United States in 2020 and sought ...