Time and time again the Assad dynasty has survived internal and external challenges and lived to fight another day. But ...
Amid a rapid-fire collapse of Syrian, Hezbollah, Russian and Iranian forces in northern Syria, questions are surfacing about ...
Russia appears to be "letting the Syrian rebels overthrow" President Bashar al-Assad according to Richard Grenell, who served ...
AMMAN (Reuters) -Russian and Syrian warplanes targeted insurgents in an Aleppo city suburb on Saturday, two Syrian military ...
Assad, the Syrian dictator, to retake Aleppo after part of the city fell to insurgents in 2012. Less than four days is how ...
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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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.
The rapid advance of Syrian rebels into Aleppo has proved a grievous blow to Bashar al-Assad’s vile regime. Radical Islamist ...