A mass grave on the route is now the site of the Memorial of Zoungbodji, where a sculpture by the local artist Fortuné Banderia shows lines of slaves in manacles. As we progress through Ouidah, it ...

Fifty years ago, it was the site of a brutal battle at the United States Army’s Firebase Bird – and until recently, it was the location of a mass grave containing the remains of 60 people.

A retired GP has developed a theory as to where a mass grave containing the bodies of hundreds killed in a 1643 Civil War battle could be located. Dr Normal Beale said he had used satellite imagery ...

A mass grave containing the bodies of at least 100,000 people tortured and killed under the brutal dictatorship of ousted President Bashar al-Assad was discovered outside Damascus, according to ...

Mexican authorities have uncovered 17 male bodies in multiple clandestine graves near the Guatemala border in the southern state of Chiapas, state prosecutors announced on Sunday. The graves were ...

A retired GP has developed a theory as to where a mass grave containing the bodies of hundreds killed in a 1643 Civil War battle could be located. Dr Normal Beale said he had used satellite ...

Syrians are starting to uncover mass graves across the country, shedding light on the magnitude of atrocities committed during the brutal rule of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad. Since Assad fled ...

A mass grave was discovered on Wednesday in Damascus' Sayyida Zeinab suburb, the Syrian Civil Defense group, known as the White Helmets, said. The discovery highlights the ongoing toll of Assad's ...

(Beirut) – The state of a mass grave in Damascus and statements by people living in the surrounding area suggest that the area is a mass crime scene and may have been the site of other summary ...

White Helmets teams have recovered human remains from a mass grave close to Baghdad Bridge, near Adra [Getty Images] Less than 10km (six miles) from the busy Damascus city centre, in the north ...

QUTAYFAH, Syria (Reuters) - 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 ...