While Damascus remained under crippling Western sanctions, neighboring countries had begun to resign themselves to Assad's ...
President Bashar al-Assad used Russian and Iranian firepower to beat back rebel forces during years of civil war but never ...
If Assad ends up surviving again, it will be at least in part because much of the world went with the devil they know.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that the U.S. military should stay out of the fast-escalating ...
The so-called “axis of the vulnerable” is breaking in Syria. Starting in 2016, Russia and Iran, propping up the regime of ...
Alone and broke against a renewed insurgency, Bashar Assad's hold on power faces its stiffest test in a decade.
The former officials, who served in both Democratic and Republican administrations, said they were “alarmed” by the choice of ...
Western and Arab states, as well as Israel, would like to see Iran’s influence in Syria curtailed, but none wish for a ...
Thousands of people fled the central Syrian city of Homs, the country’s third largest, as insurgents seized two towns on the ...
Israel’s cautious diplomacy echoes its Cold War-era policies, where it balanced relationships with both the United States and ...
The offensive has reignited the civil war, which began in 2011 and has been devastating the country's economy. It is possible ...