TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Ta’aliq — “to hang” in Arabic — is Iraqi slang for a torture technique that hoists victims into the air, their hands handcuffed above their heads. Akrab, or “scorpion,” is the ...

French lawyers for suspected ISIL members transferred from Syria say men suffering inhumane treatment in Iraqi jails.

BAGHDAD — U.S. soldiers found mass graves north of Baghdad next to a torture center where chains were attached to blood-spattered walls and a metal bed frame was still connected to an electrical shock ...