Syria Earthquake Provides Opening for Rehabilitation of Butcher of Damascus Yet as the West and even the Arab world pay ‘lip service to Assad following the earthquake, they are yet to strategically ...

Thousands of Syria’s Jews left in recent decades. But after Assad’s ouster and easing of sanctions, they can now reconnect ...

France issued the arrest warrant following investigations into two alleged uses of banned chemical weapons in Syria, arguing that it has "universal" jurisdiction regarding chemical attacks.

Opinion With Syria’s upheaval, a pivotal moment of danger and opportunity for Israel Iran’s “Shia crescent” in the Middle East has collapsed. What comes next will affect the region for ...

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 ...

One of the darkest moments in the modern history of the Arab world happened more than four decades ago, when then-Syrian President Hafez Assad launched what came to be known as the Hama Massacre.

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 ...

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… ...

‘Butcher of Hama’: Assad’s uncle used Guernsey fund manager to stash millions looted from Syria Ginette Blondel worked without a licence or oversight for alleged war criminal Rifaat al-Assad ...

Can Putin’s ‘Butcher of Syria’ save Russia from another rout? Russia’s General Sergei Surovikin is no stranger to mass murder but his brutality may not be enough to defeat Ukraine.

A dark history Hama, Syria’s fourth-largest city, is known for its quaint waterwheels, a landmark attraction along the banks of the Orontes River.