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

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 ...

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...

Barazanko was 20 at the time. He watched as soldiers under the command of Assad’s uncle Rifaat encircled the city, bombarded it with air strikes and slaughtered an estimated 40,000 people.

Series'The al-Assad saga' (Part 3/4). 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 always to have one of his sons ...

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 ...

The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad has been named the country’s interim ...

Hama (Syria) (AFP) – Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one of the darkest chapters of the Assad clan's rule.