HAMA, Syria — For more than four decades, the Assad family made sure that the horrors it committed here stayed unspeakable — killing tens of thousands of Hama residents over a savage month ...
Rifaat al-Assad, known as the “Butcher of Hama” for overseeing the violent suppression of a rebellion in the 1980s, has been accused of war crimes by Swiss prosecutors. Rifaat al-Assad ...
In previous conflicts with Hamas, many Israeli strikes were approved only after officers concluded that no civilians would be hurt. Sometimes, officers could risk killing up to five civilians and ...
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have released the crew of the Galaxy Leader more than a year after they seized their Bahamas-flagged vessel off the Yemeni Red Sea coast, Houthi-owned Al Masirah TV ...
Rifaat, in his late 80s, was brother to Assad’s father, the late president Hafez al-Assad, and led elite forces that crushed a 1982 Muslim Brotherhood uprising in the city of Hama, killing more than ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Hundreds marched in Jerusalem on Tuesday against an expected agreement between Israel and Hamas for a ...