Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a ...

An Associated Press journalist shot footage of an abandoned army checkpoint where uniforms were discarded on the ground under a poster of Assad’s face. Footage broadcast on opposition-linked ...

The Assad regime survived on violence and complicity. But to be sustainable in any authoritarian context, that violence cannot be wielded every single day. A new poll revealed that only 11 percent ...

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Syrian rebels had taken Damascus. Bashar al-Assad, the leader of the Syrian dictatorship, had fled to seek asylum in Russia. The Assad regime had fallen. Oudeh was delighted. His new American ...

By Constant Méheut With the fall of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Vladimir V. Putin has suffered one of the biggest geopolitical setbacks of his quarter-century in power. Several people ...

A man draped in the Syrian revolutionary flag watches as others celebrate the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, Dec. 10, 2024 (AP photo by Omar Sanadiki). Click to share on ...

What began as protests against President Assad’s regime in 2011 quickly escalated into a full-scale war between the Syrian government—backed by Russia and Iran—and anti-government rebel ...

Hadeel Al-Shalchi is a reporter currently based in the Middle East covering the conflicts there. Al-Shalchi started her career in 2004 as a newsreader and reporter for the local CBC radio station ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he had pulled Russia back from the edge of the abyss after the chaos which accompanied the fall of the Soviet Union, and had built the country into a ...