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 ...
Syrian Rebels Sweep Into Aleppo, Russia Conducts Strikes in Support of Assad
AMMAN (Reuters) -Russian and Syrian warplanes targeted insurgents in an Aleppo city suburb on Saturday, two Syrian military ...
Putin 'Letting Syrian Rebels Overthrow Assad': Ex-Trump Intel Chief
Russia appears to be "letting the Syrian rebels overthrow" President Bashar al-Assad according to Richard Grenell, who served ...
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Syrian rebels sweep into Aleppo in an embarrassing rout for Bashar al-Assad
Assad, the Syrian dictator, to retake Aleppo after part of the city fell to insurgents in 2012. Less than four days is how ...
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 ...