Gen. Ibrahim Huweija is also accused of overseeing killing of Lebanese politician Kamal Jumblatt - Anadolu Ajansı ...

The city can finally mourn the tens of thousands of victims of Hafez al-Assad and the massacre he ordered 43 years ago. A child in Hama's city centre, where the Baath party government killed tens ...

Violence is flaring across parts of western Syria, as forces of the self-styled Syrian transitional government have clashed ...

Syria witnessed the most intense and bloodiest clashes between the new Syrian government and Bashar al Assad loyalists since ...

More than 70 people were killed and dozens more wounded in Syria in fighting between government security forces and militants ...

Syria's new authorities launched a sweeping security operation Friday after clashes with fighters loyal to former president ...

But many Alawites said that they suffered like other Syrians under the rule of Assad and his father, Hafez al-Assad. Eyewitness reports and videos from the coastal region showed houses in ...

Fierce fighting between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to deposed ruler Bashar al-Assad killed 48 people on Thursday ...

SANA said meanwhile that security forces had detained Ibrahim Huweija, a general who was "accused of hundreds of assassinations" under the rule of Assad's father and predecessor, Hafez al-Assad.

"He is accused of hundreds of assassinations during the era of the criminal Hafez al-Assad," Bashar al-Assad's father and predecessor. Huweija, who headed air force intelligence from 1987 to 2002 ...