"The armed forces realized that they were fighting without a cause," al-Hassan told UPI in a phone interview from Damascus. The war, he said, could have stopped in 2017 if Assad had accepted an ...

Such as the Republican Guard compound which looks down over Damascus, and was the headquarters of the feared commander General Bassam Al-Hassan, Assad's adviser for strategic affairs, who was ...

For years, Hassan Al-Abbasi, Rania's brother, has been demanding information on their whereabouts. He has actively searched for the children following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad's government ...

Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Ali Abbas and Maj. Gen. Bassam Merhej al-Hassan, head of Bashar Assad’s office and the man in charge of his security, are accused of human rights violations.

The US has charged two high-ranking officials of the fallen Assad regime with war crimes for allegedly torturing Syrian and American citizens, as rebels vow to hold the ousted leaders accountable.

Syrian security forces have neutralized Hassan Ibrahim, a cell leader linked to remnants of the deposed Bashar Assad regime, ...

Syrian security forces are currently engaged in battles against armed groups loyal to former officer Suhail al-Hassan who was ...

Assad was on the verge of a breakthrough ... that could reshape the Levant and the wider region for years to come. Hassan Hassan is the founder and editor in chief of New Lines Magazine, an ...

The clashes reportedly began when gunmen linked to an Assad-era commander, Suhail al-Hassan, attacked security patrols and ...

A Defense Ministry spokesman, Hassan Abdul-Ghani, called on the Assad loyalists to surrender. Fall of Assad's regime In early ...