Asharq Al-Awsat on MSN

Yemeni officer: Drug-smuggling networks linked to Houthi preventive security

Yemen: Colonel Osama al-Assad, commander of Yemen’s Security and Protection Battalion at the Al-Wadiah border crossing, said that most drug-smuggling networks operating from Yemen toward Saudi Arabia ...
Yahoo

Inside Bashar al-Assad's exile in Moscow, a year since ouster from Syria

Assad is said to be living a life of reclusion in Moscow, but rumors say he is also doing business, while his brother plots a return. As Syria celebrates one year since the fall of the Assad regime, ...
Al Jazeera on MSN

Who was Rifaat al-Assad, commander of Syria’s 1982 Hama massacre?

The ‘Butcher of Hama’ and former Syrian vice president dies in exile at age 89.
The New York Times

For Fallen Syrian Dictator Assad and Family, an Exile of Luxury and Impunity

Bashar al-Assad’s long, brutal reign ended swiftly, but he and his close circle have had a soft landing in Russia. Credit...Aaron Byrd Supported by By Erika Solomon Christiaan Triebert Haley Willis ...

Rifaat al-Assad, Paramilitary Leader and ‘Butcher of Hama,’ Dies at 88

The brother and uncle of Syrian tyrants, he commanded a unit that killed up to 40,000 civilians in a 1982 uprising against ...