After years of fruitless searching for his wife and children, al-Farra said, “I began to wish they were dead.” He said that was better than detention under the Assad regime. But after hearing ...

Assad, who is Alawite, filled his security agencies and paramilitaries ... Around noon Friday, Haydar got a call from the ...

After years of fruitless searching for his wife and children, al-Farra said, "I began to wish they were dead." He said that ...