The illusion of Assad’s grip on Syria shatters, as Russia, Iran and Hezbollah let their guard down
Time and time again the Assad dynasty has survived internal and external challenges and lived to fight another day. But ...
Assad’s old allies can’t ride to the rescue this time
In 2015, Russia waged its largest military campaign outside its borders since the Cold War, launching a sweeping air war to ...
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The ophthalmologist dictator: Syria's Bashar al-Assad
How did Assad gain power? Through old-fashioned dynastic succession. He became president in 2000 after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad, a tyrant who had ruled Syria for 30 years.
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Lankford concerned over Gabbard’s Assad meeting: ‘We’ll have lots of questions’
James Lankford (R-OK), who serves on the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee, is expressing some concern about her 2017 visit to Syria, in which she met with Syrian President Bashar Assad and ...
Islamist rebels in Syria catch Assad, Putin, Iran regimes off guard giving US new mideast headache
Amid a rapid-fire collapse of Syrian, Hezbollah, Russian and Iranian forces in northern Syria, questions are surfacing about ...
Assad’s humiliating retreat is a blow to Iran
The rapid advance of Syrian rebels into Aleppo has proved a grievous blow to Bashar al-Assad’s vile regime. Radical Islamist ...