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 ...

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

President Bashar al-Assad ruled his country with an iron fist for 24 years, as his father had done for 30 years before him. When he appeared to prevail in Syria’s civil war, it was widely ...

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.

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 ...

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.