First legal request filed against a sitting Israeli leader under new UK sanctions, citing his part in crimes in Palestine ...

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

Assad, ‍the uncle of deposed Syrian ⁠leader Bashar al-Assad accused of orchestrating ‍mass killings during ‍a ‍1982 ⁠uprising ...

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have fallen from power in Syria as the U.S. shifts its backing to the country's new ...

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 ...

CENTCOM forces have transferred 150 ISIS fighters from a facility in Syria to a secure location in Iraq amid tensions between ...

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 uncle of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the former commander of the paramilitary “Defence ...

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

Rifaat al-Assad lived in exile in Europe for nearly 40 years and only returned to Syria in 2021 to avoid being arrested in ...

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