The brother and uncle of Syrian tyrants, he commanded a unit that killed up to 40,000 civilians in a 1982 uprising against ...

Known for his role in the 1982 Hama massacre, the late member of Syria’s former ruling family oversaw the killing of tens of ...

Rifaat al-Assad, who was the uncle of the deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and was known as the “Butcher of Hama” for ...

Rifaat al-Assad, the younger brother of former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad who was once a very powerful figure in the ...

The ‘Butcher of Hama’ and former Syrian vice president dies in exile at age 89.

Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, crushed an Islamist uprising in Hama in 1982 before ...

Assad, died at 88 in UAE. Notorious for his role in the 1982 Hama massacre, Rifaat spent years in exile after a failed challenge for Syrian leadership. Despite wealth and political maneuvering, his ...

Syrian forces are hunting ISIS fugitives after dozens escaped from a prison in northeastern Syria, the interior ministry said, as the government moves to take territory from Kurdish fighters.

Estrada ousted in the Philippines; Civil war breaks out in Lebanon; US uses napalm in Korean War; Textile strike in Passaic, New Jersey ...

Pointing to Sharaa’s attacks against Alawites, Kurds, Christians, moderate Sunnis, and Druze, Khromachou said extrajudicial ...

The Islamic Republic cannot survive the death of Khamenei, the growing power of the IRGC, or the loss of popular legitimacy.

Revealing the new notes on Monday, Sharaa said, the new currency marks "the end of a previous, unlamented phase and the beginning of a new phase that the Syrian people aspire to." Syria welcomed the ...