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 ...

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

Somewhat like my fellow National Post columnist Lorne Gunter who has written on the trial of Ontario homeowner Ian Thomson, I am perplexed beyond puzzlement why the Crown is prosecuting this man. For ...

Shamima Begum, who left London at 15 to join ISIS and married Dutch-born Yago Riedijk, is being held in a Syrian detention camp where a former guard says she could potentially be released ...

Rifaat al-Assad, who was the uncle of the deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and was known as the “Butcher of Hama” for ...

This is the second time that President Vladimir V. Putin has hosted President Ahmed al-Sharaa since the fall of the Russia-backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.

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

Jan 21 (Reuters) - Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by critics as the "butcher ...

A compound in Lebanon housing people who fled Syria after Bashar Assad's fall has faced allegations of harboring Assad ...

A compound in Lebanon housing people who fled Syria after Bashar Assad’s fall has faced allegations of harboring Assad ...