As the recent ousting of Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad proves, no autocracy is permanent—and that includes the regime of ...

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 loser ...

Syria’s iron-fisted leader Bashar al-Assad is the second generation of an autocratic family dynasty that held power for more than five decades and his disappearance amid a lightning rebel ...

Bashar al-Assad was never expected to rule Syria. That job was meant for his older brother, Basil, who trained as a military commander while Bashar studied to be an ophthalmologist. He wasn’t ...

Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...

The demise of the Syrian regime was marked by internal confusion, last-minute diplomatic wrangling, and the exposure of its ...

The offensive triggered the “death spiral” of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, as a mixed coalition of former rebels, local strongmen, and regular people, suddenly emboldened, captured the southern ...

During a telephone conversation with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Russian leader Vladimir Putin has apologised for the ...

The rise of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria poses a direct ideological and strategic challenge to the Taliban’s hardline ...

Russian state media news agencies reported that Assad and his family were in Moscow and given asylum. Jaden Ivey converted a four-point play with 3 seconds left and the Detroit Pistons rallied ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered his apologies to his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev that the incident with the AZAL airliner occurred in Russia’s airspace and conveyed his condolences ...