Shuja al-Ali, a former high-ranking official in the Assad regime and notorious leader of the Shabiha militia, was killed in fighting with security forces in Homs province in western Syria.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, many are using the word “shabiha” to describe the PASF – a term commonly used for forces and groups that were loyal to Syria’s former dictator Bashar al-Assad.

According to prosecutors, as a district leader of the Shabiha militia operating under Assad's orders, he committed various crimes, including arbitrarily detaining civilians and forcing them to ...

Syrian security forces are conducting a security sweep in the city of Homs, state media reported on Thursday, with a monitor ...

"The state is new; they are repairing things," he says. When you saw the shabiha – pro-regime thugs – or the regime soldiers behaving badly, we couldn’t say to them that they were in the ...

Prosecutors said he committed the crimes from 2012 to 2015 as a leader of the pro-Assad "shabiha" militia in Damascus, tasked with suppressing dissent. A German court handed a 10-year jail term to ...