Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by critics as the "butcher of Hama" for ...

The ‘Butcher of Hama’ and former Syrian vice president dies in exile at age 89.

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.

At least 400,000 people have died in the Syrian conflict that is now 10 years old. More than 5.6 million have fled the country, with millions more displaced internally. The violence has been bloody, ...

Known for his role in the 1982 Hama massacre, the late member of Syria’s former ruling family oversaw the killing of tens of ...