In December 2024, forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham defeated Assad regime forces, leading to the regime’s collapse and raising hopes for an end to Syria’s brutal civil war. Since then, President ...

More than 3 million Syrian refugees have returned to Syria since the ousting of the Assad regime in December 2024. But after 50 years of the Assad dynasty's repressive reign and nearly 14 years of ...

The brother and uncle of Syrian tyrants, he commanded a unit that killed up to 40,000 civilians in a 1982 uprising against his family’s rule. By Adam Nossiter Rifaat al-Assad, who as a paramilitary ...

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 ...

Back in 2008, Milton girls hockey head coach Matt Lodi got a coaching gig with Natick’s boys junior varsity program. It was his introduction to coaching high school athletics. And from year to year ...

The quest for justice for the victims and survivors of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons has reached a turning point. The fall of the Assad regime in December 2024 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria started the process of circulating new currency bills on Saturday as the crisis-hit nation ...

DAMASCUS—The family of Abdu Kharouf, a moderate Muslim preacher in a dirt-poor section of Damascus, had been haunted for half a decade by questions of how exactly he ended up in a prison run by ...

In mid-November 2025, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani arrived in Beijing for his first official visit since the fall of Bashar al-Assad. A joint statement after the visit reaffirmed respect ...

The first wave of detentions in the new Syria came almost immediately – just after victorious rebels flung open the doors of Bashar al-Assad’s notorious prisons. As ordinary Syrians stormed detention ...

Ken Assad, a state champion on the ice at Franklin High as a star player and later as an assistant coach, who steered the King Philip girls’ hockey program to its first Hockomock League title last ...