Rifaat al-Assad, 87, had flown out of Lebanon on Thursday using his real passport, and was not stopped, the Lebanese officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not ...

Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to Dubai in ...

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.

Beirut: Hafez al-Assad did not settle for ruling Syria with an iron grip—he also sought to control Lebanon, and he got his way. Throughout the 1980s, there was frequent talk of a second power ...

Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, is known as the “butcher of Hama” due to longstanding allegations that he played a key role in the 1982 massacre of tens of thousands ...

Rifaat al-Assad, 87, the uncle of Bashar al-Assad, was due to face trial in Switzerland for alleged crimes committed dating back to his time as a military commander in 1982.

These special forces were led by Hafez al-Assad's brother, Rifaat al-Assad. They besieged the city. I think it was the Human Rights Watch who estimated something around 20,000 people were killed ...

Rifaat was expelled from Syria in 1984 following an attempted coup against his brother, Hafez, the father of Bashar and then ruler of the country. Rifaat al-Assad spent most of the following decades ...

Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to Dubai in ...

BEIRUT - Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to ...