Assad

One of the most remarkable outcomes of the toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria is that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the rebel group leading the coalition now...

It’s a crisis waiting on the border and threatening to pounce. Hundreds of thousands of lives and seven years of hard-won progress in the fight against ISIS terror could all...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Beijing may take lessons from the Kremlin’s new paradigm for military intervention. It has long been recognized that the closer alignment between Moscow and Beijing...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The geographic dispersion reflects that the Turkish response was a wider-scale attack on targets across Syria, not just on the positions that opened fire in...

An artillery barrage tore into Al-Shifa hospital in northwest Syria on Saturday morning. The attack killed two healthcare providers, and the hospital is temporarily out of service. Yet this war...

For more than a decade, Syria has been ripped apart by bullets and barrel bombs, division and destruction. While the endangerment of Christians from neighboring Iraq has garnered much international...

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was “re-elected” to a fourth seven-year term on Thursday afternoon via a corrupt process so predictable that no one was surprised by it. Syrian state-run news agency...

The Syrian regime attacked the town of Ghouta in southwestern Syria with sarin, a nerve agent, that killed hundreds of civilians on August 21, 2013. With that, Syrian president Bashar...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The air strike on Syria was probably not decisive in preventing Syria from getting a nuclear weapon. On September 6, 2007, Israeli fighter-bombers destroyed a...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Now that Assad’s hold on power is secure, it’s becoming clear that growing infrastructure of Iranian bases in Syria is likely there to stay—and that...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: In truth, even the support of Iran and Hezbollah was not enough for Assad to win the war—but they kept his regime on life support....

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may have successfully warded off a nine-year rebellion against his government, but he is being tested with economic turmoil and civilian protests amid the coronavirus pandemic...