The retired public servant recalled how the elite Defence Brigades headed by Rifaat al-Assad had moved in on their neighbourhood. Six months later, authorities detained his other brother, Myassar, ...

After 61 years of Baath rule ended in December 2024, survivors of the 1982 Hama Massacre are speaking out for the first time ...

According to sources in Lebanon's law enforcement, the individuals arrested include the wife of Duraid Assad, the son of former Syrian Vice President Rifaat Assad and Bashar Assad's uncle ...

Amid the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War and talks with Israel, Hafez al-Assad's top priority was ...

TEL RIFAAT, Syria (AP) — The long anticipated return home for residents of the Syrian town of Tel Rifaat, displaced since ...

This one was older, the other was younger," she said. Kerricha said members of the Defense Battalions, affiliated with Rifaat Assad, also detained her husband during the raids. “They took my ...

The regime set up by Hafez al-Assad after the coup d'état of November 13, 1970, had only one objective: Its own continuity, ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

BEIRUT (AP) — The wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad ’s cousins were arrested Friday at the Beirut airport, where they attempted to fly out with allegedly forged ...

In December, during a lightning offensive by Syrian rebels that ousted President Bashar Assad, the tables were turned again as Turkish-backed rebels seized Tel Rifaat from the Kurdish-led Syrian ...

The long-anticipated return home for residents of the Syrian town of Tel Rifaat, displaced since 2014, has collided with a ...