The last 13 years in Syria were chaotic, but diplomats from both the moderate Arab camp and Europe believed that since Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian army had won the civil war after recapturing ...

The fall of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, after 13 years of brutal war, ... such as Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan or Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, to cite two heinous examples.

Few will mourn Bashar al-Assad’s rule. ... President Ilham Aliyev is prone to military adventurism—he increasingly follows Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s trajectory.

The international community recognizes that the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship in Syria was a major strategic defeat for Russia. Many international observers note that another major ...

The Issue: A rebel group has forced out Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government. The fall of Syria’s genocidal dictator Bashar al-Assad is truly an instance of opportunity meeting ...

Over the weekend, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia as opposition forces took over the capital of Damascus, ending an uprising that had begun in 2011 and killed hundreds of thousands ...

President Bashar al-Assad had kept opposition forces at bay for a decade with help from Russia and Iran. But rebels struck at a moment of weakness for those countries.

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his family have been granted asylum in Russia and are now in Moscow. Assad's departure marks the end of nearly 25 years of brutal rule.

In 2012, Barack Obama declared a "red line," warning that the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad’s regime would prompt direct US intervention in Syria’s then-year-old civil war.

Item 1 of 2 Bashar al-Assad speaks to the Syrian parliament in Damascus, Syria, August 25, 2024. SANA/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo [1/2] Bashar al-Assad speaks to the Syrian parliament in ...

The fall of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, after 13 years of brutal war, ... such as Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan or Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, to cite two heinous examples.