Associated Press journalists have been covering these conflicts since they began. Now, as 2024 ends and a new year begins, we ...

Assad's regime in Syria has exposed the fragility of other autocratic regimes, such as Nicolás Maduro's government in ...

Assad’s regime in Syria has exposed the fragility of other autocratic regimes, such as Nicolás Maduro’s government in Venezuela, which relies on external ...

The fall of the Assad regime in Syria has led to the freeing of tens of thousands of prisoners from the country’s brutal and ...

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad fell amid complex geopolitical shifts, not because America and her allies are imperialists ...

For decades, Russia has been trying to rebuild its influence in the Middle East. But after the rapid collapse of the Assad ...

To gain some insight into the year ahead, CFR fellows highlight some of the global developments they will be looking out for.

Critics of Putin decried the statement as antisemitic, noting parallels to Soviet state antisemitism under Josef Stalin.

Assad's regime is the latest casualty of Iran's war on Israel. After keeping his hold on Syria through 13 years of civil war, ...

President Vladimir Putin boasted that his military operation in Ukraine has strengthened Russia and denied that the ouster of ...

Last week, after 50 years of tyranny and repression, the government of Bashar Assad fell in Syria. It fell thanks to a combination of three forces: first, Israel’s military utterly eviscerated Assad’s ...

The rapid downfall of Syrian leader Bashar Assad has touched off a new round of delicate geopolitical maneuvering between ...