Time and time again the Assad dynasty has survived internal and external challenges and lived to fight another day. But ...
They claimed Saturday evening to have entered Hama city. The swift and surprise offensive is a huge embarrassment for Syria’s ...
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 ...
In 2015, Russia waged its largest military campaign outside its borders since the Cold War, launching a sweeping air war to ...