To reach Aqrab is to penetrate deep into the badlands of central Syria, where many of the worst atrocities of the war have taken place. It is not a journey undertaken lightly, and 24 hours of intense ...

"There is no systematic torture in Egyptian prisons,” said the head of Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), Mohamed Fayeq, following a recent visit by council members to al-Aqrab Prison, ...

Most of people were from Nusayri families, in Aqrab village of the Hula town in Hama city. Around 2,000 Nusayri people live in Aqrab village whose total population is 6,000 ...

BEIRUT — Mystery continues to surround the fate of scores of people, mostly members of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s Alawite Muslim sect, said to have been trapped and possibly killed this week in ...

CAIRO - Families of inmates held at Aqrab maximum security prison in Cairo tried to conceal their faces last week as they announced that many of their detained family members had gone on hunger ...

British channel saysthat rebels may have used Alawites as human shields Beirut: Mystery continues to surround the fate of scores of people, mostly members of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad’s Alawite ...

If proven, the incident would be the first major attack on Alawites Beirut/Damascus: Up to 200 members of President Bashar Al Assad’s Alawite minority were injured or killed in an attack on their ...

The National Human Rights Council will submit a request to visit Egypt’s Aqrab prison amid calls for allowing winter clothes and other basic-needs items to be provided for inmates, board member George ...

CAIRO - Families of inmates held at Aqrab maximum security prison in Cairo tried to conceal their faces last week as they announced that many of their detained family members had gone on hunger ...