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

LIMA — The North Central Ohio Solid Waste District announced its January schedule for its drop-off recycling programs in Allen County. • American Township will not have a drop off due to the Jan. 1 ...

Two Palestinian boys have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza while collecting firewood, according to their families.

Rifaat al-Assad, exiled uncle of former Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, has died aged 88 in the UAE, according to media reports. According to Reuters, Assad - the brother of the late Syrian President ...

THE notorious uncle of ousted Syrian despot Assad, dubbed the “Butcher of Hama” has died. Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, died at the age of ...

A former army officer who helped Hafez al-Assad seize power in a 1970 coup and establish his iron rule, Rifaat continued to ...

Known for role in brutal suppression in the 1980s, the former Defence Brigades head has died after a brief illness ...

Assad, the uncle of deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad accused of orchestrating mass killings during a 1982 uprising in Syria, has died, according to two people with ...

Assad, the uncle of Syria’s deposed ruler Bashar al-Assad and known for his bloody crackdown on a Muslim Brotherhood uprising ...

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

Rifat Assad was nicknamed "the butcher of Hama" after the bloody suppression by government forces under his command of an ...