QUTAYFAH, Syria — Dec 18 — An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run "machinery of death" under toppled leader Bashar al-Assad in which he estimated more than 100,000 people were tortured and murdered since 2013.

WASHINGTON, Dec 17 — The head of a US-based Syrian advocacy organisation yesterday said that a mass grave outside of Damascus contained the bodies of at least 100,000 people killed by the former government of ousted President Bashar al-Assad.

GAZA, April 26 — Paramedics and rescue teams who participated in recovering the bodies of civilians from the mass graves uncovered in the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, reported suspicions of organ theft by the Israeli forces.

DUBAI, April 26 — A Palestinian civil defence team on Thursday called on the United Nations to investigate what it said were war crimes at a Gaza hospital, saying nearly 400 bodies were recovered from mass graves after Israeli soldiers departed the complex.

KANGAR, June 23 — Four Thai men were separately charged at the Sessions Court here today with smuggling of migrants involving two Myanmar nationals at Bukit Wang Burma, Wang Kelian, Padang Besar between 2013 and 2015.