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 ...

Rifat Assad was nicknamed "the butcher of Hama" after the bloody suppression by government forces under his command of an ...

Assad, uncle of deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and dubbed the "Butcher of Hama" for suppressing an uprising in the 1980s, has died aged 88, two sources close to the family said Wednesday. Once a ...

Known for role in brutal suppression in the 1980s, the former Defence Brigades head has died after a brief illness ...

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is living in near-isolation in Russia, sidelined by President Vladimir Putin, one year after fleeing Syria following the collapse of his rule, according to a ...

Extensive Russian influence in Syria goes back to the Soviet era and survived the collapse of the USSR and the end of communism. It appears that now Russian influence in Syria has survived the fall of ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—During 13 years of revolution and war, the Syrian dictatorship of President Bashar al-Assad set a high water mark for cruelty in the 21st century, disappearing tens of thousands of ...

Iranian General Qassem Soleimani warned Syrian officials that Luna al-Shibl, a close adviser to President Bashar al-Assad, was a spy months before she died in a suspected assassination disguised as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bashar al-Assad is living in Moscow under tight restrictions imposed by Russia nearly a year after fleeing Syria, with his ...