For the Butcher of Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, the long horrific chapter of his perch at the top of the man-eating power game in Syria came to a screeching ...

Rifaat was expelled from Syria in 1984 following an attempted coup against his brother, Hafez, the father of Bashar and then ruler of the country. Rifaat al-Assad spent most of the following decades ...

David Lammy proclaimed himself the first UK Minister to visit Syria since Assad’s retreat to Moscow. Renewing British ...

BASHAR al-Assad’s butcher room, where critics were dismembered and melted in acid, has been uncovered. The nightmare chamber in Sednaya prison saw some of the most heinous crimes of the Assad… ...

An uncle of the recently ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has fled, via Lebanon, to the United Arab Emirates, according to Lebanese officials. Rifaat al-Assad, known as the “Butcher of ...

FILE - Rifaat Assad, an exiled uncle of Syrian president Bashar Assad answers questions from the Associated Press, in Paris, France, Tuesday Nov.15, 2011. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File) (Michel ...

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has met Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Damascus to discuss boosting ...

The uncle of Syria's former president - known as the "butcher of Hama" - used a Guernsey adviser to secretly manage his wealth, a joint investigation has revealed.. Rifaat al-Assad, the uncle of ...