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According to sources in Lebanon's law enforcement, the individuals arrested include the wife of Duraid Assad, the son of former Syrian Vice President Rifaat Assad and Bashar Assad's uncle ...

Rifaat Assad, the brother of Bashar Assad's father Hafez Assad, Syria's former ruler, led the artillery unit that shelled the city of Hama and killed thousands, earning him the nickname the ...

Duraid is a son of Rifaat Assad, who was a brother of Syria’s late President Hafez Assad. Rifaat went to live outside Syria in 1984, following a failed coup. In 2021 Bashar Assad allowed 87-year ...

In December, during a lightning offensive by Syrian rebels that ousted President Bashar Assad, the tables were turned again as Turkish-backed rebels seized Tel Rifaat from the Kurdish-led Syrian ...

Even among the litany of massacres committed by the Assad regimes – including the ... led by Hafez’s younger brother Rifaat, had killed thousands, the exact number unknown but estimated ...

Two days of fighting along the Mediterranean coast were among the bloodiest battles since rebels ousted the dictator Bashar al-Assad. By Christina Goldbaum Reporting from Damascus, Syria Clashes ...