Tom Barrack has been working to stabilize Syria under the leadership of Ahmed al-Sharaa, while President Trump has supported the reintegration of the Syrian state and the Syrian Democratic Forces, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Reps. French Hill (R-Ark.) and Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday that aims to disrupt production and trafficking of illegal drugs, including ...

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 1980s, has died aged 88, two sources close to the family said Wednesday. Once a ...

Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and infamous for his brutal suppression of a Muslim Brotherhood uprising that earned him the nickname “the butcher of Hama”, has died at ...

Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad known by critics as the “butcher of Hama” for crushing an Islamist uprising in the city in 1982 before unsuccessfully ...

Rifaat al-Assad, the younger brother of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and widely known as the “butcher of Hama,” has died at the age of 88. According to a Reuters report, Assad died in the ...