This one was older, the other was younger," she said. Kerricha said members of the Defense Battalions, affiliated with Rifaat Assad, also detained her husband during the raids. “They took my ...

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one ...

Lebanese political and security circles were surprised by Iran’s apparent concern for Syrian refugees who fled to Lebanon ...

The retired public servant recalled how the elite Defence Brigades headed by Rifaat al-Assad had moved in on their neighbourhood. Six months later, authorities detained his other brother ...

After 61 years of Baath rule ended in December 2024, survivors of the 1982 Hama Massacre are speaking out for the first time ...

Under Assad's orders, the Syrian military launched a full-scale assault on the city, led by his brother Rifaat Assad, one of the most brutal crackdowns in the history of modern Syria. Thousands of ...