Family friend, sources in Russia and Syria, and leaked data help give rare insight into life of dictator’s reclusive household In 2011, a group of teenage boys spray-painted a warning on to a wall in ...

HOMS, Syria (AP) — A year ago, Mohammad Marwan found himself stumbling, barefoot and dazed, out of Syria’s notorious Saydnaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus as rebel forces pushing toward the ...

A year ago, rebels overthrew President Bashar al-Assad, ending decades of dictatorship and civil war. But challenges remain for the new leadership. A year ago, rebels overthrew President Bashar ...

A Sarasota Circuit judge sentenced Dima Tower to life in prison for the premeditated murder of his adoptive parents. Tower was found guilty of stabbing Jennifer and Robbie Tower more than 140 times in ...

Dima Tower, a Ukrainian orphan adopted by Florida couple, was found guilty Friday, Nov. 13, of first-degree murder in the brutal stabbing deaths of his adoptive parents in 2023. On Aug. 31, 2023, Dima ...

Dima Tower was found guilty in the 2023 stabbing deaths of his adoptive parents in their North Port home. Tower stabbed Jennifer and Robbie Tower more than 140 times before fleeing the scene. A jury ...

Bashar al-Assad passes the time playing online video games in his Moscow high-rise, according to a former military officer close to the Assad family who spoke to German newspaper Die Zeit. The ousted ...

Exiled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was hospitalized recently after being poisoned while hiding out in Russia, according to a human rights watchdog. al-Assad, a longtime ally of Russian President ...

French judges have issued arrest warrants for former Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and six top aides for the killing and wounding of a group of journalists during the Syrian civil war in 2012. Among ...

Kevin Watson was killed in a parking lot in Chicago on Aug. 13 Escher Walcott is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, covering stories in Entertainment, Style, Human Interest.She joins having written for ...

A routine evening turned deadly when a Chicago father was shot and killed during a Facebook livestream, creating a horrific scene that unfolded in real time for viewers watching the social media ...

A Chicago man was fatally shot as he was streaming on Facebook Live, his family says. Kevin Watson, 42, was in a parking lot in the 5000 block of West Madison in the South Austin about 6 p.m.