A fragile ceasefire between Syria's government and Kurdish-led forces has temporarily eased tensions in the country's ...

For minority groups in the northeast, the fragile ceasefire holding around Kobani comes with more profound questions over ...

Turkey is celebrating the latest developments in Syria, where the new government has effectively defeated a major Kurdish-led ...

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

Lebanon is taking a bolder stance toward Iran to assert state sovereignty and rebalance bilateral ties, adopting ...

A Kurdish force that helped defeat the Islamic State is collapsing as the Trump administration turns to back the new Syrian ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by critics as the "butcher of Hama" for crushing an Islamist uprising in the city in 1982 before unsuccessfully ...

In mid-November 2025, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani arrived in Beijing for his first official visit since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. A joint statement after the visit reaffirmed respect ...