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Syria's Rifaat al-Assad, the 'butcher of Hama', dies at 88

FILE PHOTO: Former Syrian Vice President Rifaat Al-Assad, disgraced younger brother of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, appears in an undated file photograph. REUTERS/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Former Syrian Vice President Rifaat Al-Assad, disgraced younger brother of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, appears in an undated file photograph. REUTERS/File Photo

Lebanon detains Syrian who helped funnel funds to pro-Assad fighters, sources say

Kremlin says Putin is mediating in Iran situation to try to de-escalate

FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks on the day he attends a documents signing ceremony with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Moscow, Russia January 17, 2025. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool/ File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks on the day he attends a documents signing ceremony with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Moscow, Russia January 17, 2025. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool/ File Photo

Syria secures Assad-era mass grave revealed by Reuters report, opens criminal investigation

FILE PHOTO: A detail of what one witness told Reuters was an incomplete trench dug to take bodies in this mass grave site in the desert near the eastern Syrian town of Dhumair, February 27, 2025. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A detail of what one witness told Reuters was an incomplete trench dug to take bodies in this mass grave site in the desert near the eastern Syrian town of Dhumair, February 27, 2025. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi/File Photo

Syrian security forces kill 2 while dispersing Alawite protests over mosque bombing: War monitor

Thousands of Syrian Alawites gathered in coastal and central parts of the country on Dec 28 to protest after Dec 26’s bombing at a mosque.
Thousands of Syrian Alawites gathered in coastal and central parts of the country on Dec 28 to protest after Dec 26’s bombing at a mosque.

Assad’s enforcers brutalised Syria. Now they’re living large, lying low and evading justice.

A aerial view of al-Ghassaniya, a mainly Christian town in central Syria, south of the city of Homs, as it residents begin to return to their destroyed homes and businesses after they fled during the Syrian civil war, on December 14, 2025. During the 14-year Syria civil war, Islamic Jihadist groups were active in the areas of Northwestern Syria, with many of the local Christian community abandoning their towns and villages and settling mainly in former president Bashar al-Assad regime-controlled areas. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)
A aerial view of al-Ghassaniya, a mainly Christian town in central Syria, south of the city of Homs, as it residents begin to return to their destroyed homes and businesses after they fled during the Syrian civil war, on December 14, 2025. During the 14-year Syria civil war, Islamic Jihadist groups were active in the areas of Northwestern Syria, with many of the local Christian community abandoning their towns and villages and settling mainly in former president Bashar al-Assad regime-controlled areas. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

For fallen Syrian dictator Assad and family, an exile of luxury and impunity in Moscow

FILE Ñ Barvikha Luxury Village near Moscow in December 2012. Barvikha Luxury Village is located in the opulent area said to be currently hosting Bashar Assad. (Olga Kravets/The New York Times)
FILE Ñ Barvikha Luxury Village near Moscow in December 2012. Barvikha Luxury Village is located in the opulent area said to be currently hosting Bashar Assad. (Olga Kravets/The New York Times)

Germany charges suspected former Syrian intelligence agent with murder in Assad jail

US hits ISIS in Syria with large retaliatory strikes, officials say

U.S. President Donald Trump salutes, as members of the military carry a transfer case, during a dignified transfer of the remains of two Iowa National Guard members killed in Syria, Sgt. Edgar Torres Tovar and Sgt. William Howard, and Ayad Mansoor Sakat, of Macomb, Michigan, who was working as an interpreter in Syria, at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware, U.S., December. 17, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
U.S. President Donald Trump salutes, as members of the military carry a transfer case, during a dignified transfer of the remains of two Iowa National Guard members killed in Syria, Sgt. Edgar Torres Tovar and Sgt. William Howard, and Ayad Mansoor Sakat, of Macomb, Michigan, who was working as an interpreter in Syria, at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware, U.S., December. 17, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

A year after Assad's fall, families of missing detainees languish without answers

Amina Beqai, holding a photo of her husband and brother, who went missing after they were arrested by security forces under the rule of ousted President Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, November 23, 2025. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
Amina Beqai, holding a photo of her husband and brother, who went missing after they were arrested by security forces under the rule of ousted President Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, November 23, 2025. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

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MDDI (P) 046/10/2025. Published by SPH Media Limited, Co. Regn. No.202120748H. Copyright © 2026 SPH Media Limited. All rights reserved.