The Latest Breaking News from Hafez

Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Syria's Hama in 1982, during one of the darkest chapters of the Assad clan's rule.

Burial sites are emerging across Syria after the ousting of al-Assad, accused of widespread extrajudicial killings.

One of the world’s worst dictators, Bashar al-Assad, apparently specialised in the eye as a doctor because he didn’t like the sight of blood

Bashar al-Assad’s apparatus ran more than 100 detention facilities where it tortured indiscriminately.

Iranian writer and film-maker who was a prominent figure in the country’s new wave of cinema

Palestinians in the Masafer Yatta region of the occupied West Bank denounce attacks by Israeli settlers.

Houshang Ebtehaj, a distinguished Iranian poet whose small but influential body of work made him a major figure in his own country and in world literature, has died in Cologne, Germany

A 26-year-old Afghan man is charged with endangering his child’s life by taking him on a dinghy that capsized.

The US Department of State issued a highly anticipated report to Congress on the estimated net worth and known sources of income of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family, estimated at between $1-2 billion. The report examines the finances of Bashar Assad and his wife Asma, Bashar’s brother Maher…