A cousin of the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad who was involved in suppressing the protests that started the 2011 ...

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.

Image Israeli troops on the Syrian side of the buffer zone between Israel and Syria.Credit...Atef Safadi/EPA ... to “take over” the buffer zone, home to a number of Syrian villages.

Atef Najib was detained ... wrote Alia Malek in her book The Home That Was Our Country. The children were eventually released but the army subsequently launched an assault in Deraa and protests ...

Syria’s Civil Defense has uncovered over two dozen charred bodies in two basements in rural Damascus, adding to the growing ...

Syrian security forces arrested Atef Najib, a cousin of ousted Bashar Assad and former political security chief in Syria’s Daraa city, over crimes against civilians, including children ...