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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

It’s the third conference on Syria since Assad was ousted in December, and the first since President Donald Trump’s ...

Forty-three years after the Assad government killed 40,000 people and levelled entire neighbourhoods, Hamawis reflect on ...

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

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

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 ...