Walid Jumblatt, former Druze leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, shakes hands with new Syrian leader Ahmad al-Sharaa during a historic visit, Dec. 22, 2024, in Damascus. (Credit: AFP)
Ibrahim Houeija, a former Air Force intelligence chief under ex-Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, was arrested in the coastal city of Jableh by the new Syrian authorities on Thursday.Since the fall of the Assad regime on Dec. 8, following a swift offensive led by a coalition of Islamist rebels led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), hundreds of people have been arrested in security operations against the "militias" of Bashar al-Assad, Hafez's son, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.On Thursday, the official Syrian news agency Sana reported that Ibrahim Houeija is accused of hundreds of assassinations under Hafez, including supervising the assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, leader and founder of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) and head of the National Movement during the Lebanese Civil War. On March 16, 1977,...
Ibrahim Houeija, a former Air Force intelligence chief under ex-Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, was arrested in the coastal city of Jableh by the new Syrian authorities on Thursday.Since the fall of the Assad regime on Dec. 8, following a swift offensive led by a coalition of Islamist rebels led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), hundreds of people have been arrested in security operations against the "militias" of Bashar al-Assad, Hafez's son, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.On Thursday, the official Syrian news agency Sana reported that Ibrahim Houeija is accused of hundreds of assassinations under Hafez, including supervising the assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, leader and founder of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) and head of the National Movement during the Lebanese Civil War. On March 16, 1977,...