Assad, the uncle of Syria’s deposed ruler Bashar al-Assad and known for his bloody crackdown on a Muslim Brotherhood uprising ...

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

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

Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by critics 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 ...

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 ...

Known for role in brutal suppression in the 1980s, the former Defence Brigades head has died after a brief illness ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sectarian violence has plagued Syria long before Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, which splintered from al-Qaeda, ...