President Vladimir V. Putin and President Ahmed al-Sharaa are looking to build ties after the fall of the Moscow-backed ...

Kremlin has not indicated whether it will agree to al-Sharaa’s repeated requests for Bashar al-Assad’s extradition.

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

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa will meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday, as the Kremlin seeks to ...

The US has rolled back a series of restrictive economic sanctions put in place during the rule of Bashar al-Assad. Syrians ...

THE notorious uncle of ousted Syrian despot Assad, dubbed the “Butcher of Hama” has died. Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the ...

Syrian authorities have asked Lebanese security forces to hand over more than 200 senior officers who fled to Lebanon after ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photo released by the official Syrian Arab news agency (SANA) on 16 February shows then Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ...

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 ...

Rifaat al-Assad, exiled uncle of former Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, has died aged 88 in the UAE, according to media reports. According to Reuters, Assad - the brother of the late Syrian President ...