ERBIL (Kurdistan24) — Rifaat al-Assad, the uncle of deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and a central figure in one of the most violent episodes of modern Syrian history, has died at the age of ...
Known for role in brutal suppression in the 1980s, the former Defence Brigades head has died after a brief illness ...
Assad, uncle of deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and dubbed the "Butcher of Hama" for suppressing an uprising in the ...
Rifat Assad was nicknamed "the butcher of Hama" after the bloody suppression by government forces under his command of an ...