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.

Less than two weeks after Ahmad al-Sharaa ousted Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a U.S. State Department delegation arrived in ...

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 ...

Bashar al-Assad, for all his autocratic power, cultivated a relatively modest public image. He flaunted nothing like the mega-yachts and network of marble baroque and rococo palaces of Iraq’s ...

People holding a large Syrian opposition flag at Umayyad Square in Damascus, marking a new dawn after the fall of president Bashar al-Assad. AFP via Getty Images The Issue: A rebel group has ...

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.

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.

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.