Bashar al-Assad was the 19th president of Syria, entering office in 2000 succeeding his father Hafez al-Assad as the country's leader and as head of the Ba'ath Party. He was ousted in December 2024 by ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan24) — Rifaat al-Assad, the uncle of deposed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and a central figure in one of the most violent episodes of modern Syrian history, has died at the age of ...

Assad, uncle of deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and dubbed the "Butcher of Hama" for suppressing an uprising in the ...

Somewhat like my fellow National Post columnist Lorne Gunter who has written on the trial of Ontario homeowner Ian Thomson, I am perplexed beyond puzzlement why the Crown is prosecuting this man. For ...

Shamima Begum, who left London at 15 to join ISIS and married Dutch-born Yago Riedijk, is being held in a Syrian detention camp where a former guard says she could potentially be released ...

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

A former army officer who helped Hafez al-Assad seize power in a 1970 coup and establish his iron rule, Rifaat continued to ...

A compound in Lebanon housing people who fled Syria after Bashar Assad's fall has faced allegations of harboring Assad ...

A compound in Lebanon housing people who fled Syria after Bashar Assad's fall has faced allegations of harboring Assad ...