U.S. officials are investigating an uncorroborated account from a high-ranking former Syrian official that American freelance ...

An American journalist who went missing in Syria more than a decade ago was executed on orders from then-President Bashar al-Assad. That's according to Major General Bassam Al Hassan, the man ...

Alaa Hassan was 25 years old when the uprisings against Bashar al-Assad began in Syria. He was part of the movement that grew quickly against the former president, and turned into a civil war. In ...

Hassan told the FBI he tried to dissuade Assad from having Tice killed but that the American was killed by a subordinate in 2013 after he had briefly escaped from his prison cell, The Post ...

Hassan said he advised Assad that Tice, whose plight was of concern to the White House, could be used as leverage with the U.S. and was more valuable alive than dead, ...

Hassan told the FBI he tried to dissuade Assad from having Tice killed but that the American was killed by a subordinate in 2013 after he had briefly escaped from his prison cell, The Post ...