Rifaat al-Assad was born in Syria in 1937, and was brought up as part of the Alawite community. He has always insisted that he did nothing improper in the acquisition of his assets.

Rifaat al-Assad’s French counsel Elie Hatem denied that the goods auctioned in Paris belonged to his client. “He is currently in Damascus, complying with both French law and that of his country.

A member of the Alawite community pastes pictures of Syrian exile Rifaat al-Assad and his son Ribal on a wall in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on 6 December, 2007.

Khaddam alleged that Rifaat al-Assad had received $300m in state funds as part of a secret deal agreed with his brother to leave the country, involving $200m siphoned from the presidential budget ...

Rifaat al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad’s uncle, on Wednesday was sentenced to four years in prison by a Paris court for embezzling Syrian state funds to buy millions of dollars worth of property throughout ...

Rifaat al-Assad, 84, was exiled by his brother Hafez, Bashar al-Assad’s father, in 1984 after leading a failed coup attempt. Rifaat was also dubbed the “Butcher of Hama” for commanding ...

Earlier this month, Rifaat, who is the exiled brother of Syria’s former strongman, Hafez al-Assad, told some Lebanese papers that he was planning on making a triumphant return to Syria. His brother ...

Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to Dubai in ...

Switzerland to try Syria’s Rifaat al-Assad for war crimes. Rifaat al-Assad is accused of ordering crimes as a commander in Hama in February 1982, Swiss attorney general says.

Rifaat al-Assad, 87, had flown out of Lebanon on Thursday using his real passport, and was not stopped, the Lebanese officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not ...