Syria’s new leadership announces the arrest of Atif Najib, a cousin of ousted President who is accused of leading a deadly 2011 crackdown on rebels in Daraa. (Israel National News' North ...

The Kremlin has denied reports that claim Asma al-Assad is seeking a return to London following her husband's exile in Moscow. Two African states are frustrating Moscow's efforts to establish a ...

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A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 uprising has been detained inside Syria, according to state news agency SANA.

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The security forces of the new Syrian authorities, which toppled the Assad government late last year, had been looking for Shaar and "raided sites where he had been hiding in the past few days ...

Syria’s new authorities have announced the arrest of Atif Najib, a former senior security officer and cousin of ousted President Bashar al-Assad. Najib is seen by many as being responsible for ...

NBC News’ Hala Gorani spoke with Assad’s former communications director about the longtime dictator’s final hours in the country that his family controlled for decades. IE 11 is not supported.

Director of national intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard shed further light on her 2017 meeting with then-Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a trip that has come under the microscope since President ...