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Bashar al-Assad

Syrians went to the polls Sunday to elect a new parliament in the midst of a coronavirus outbreak and a deepening economic crisis, as President Bashar al-Assad attempts to strengthen his political ...
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the Israeli regime’s expanding military incursions and territorial ambitions in ...
Syria’s economy has been wrecked by war and sanctions. GDP is down more than 70% since 2011. Millions of people need homes, ...
Even as it seeks new diplomatic partnerships outside the West, Tehran's economic and political isolation is deepening. The ...
The fall of President Bashar al-Assad is a serious blow to Iran’s regional ambitions, says Mostafa Pakzad, an independent geopolitical analyst focused on Iran. The Iranian regime’s “image as faithful ...
In 2012, then-President Barack Obama declared a “red line,” warning that the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad’s ...
The Middle East has moved on, preoccupied with crises in Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, and the Gulf. Syria, exhausted and bankrupt, has slipped into the background. But a post-war political order built on the ...
Moderator, "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan;" Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan is moderator of "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on CBS. Based in Washington, D.C., ...
Wall Street Journal reports that Tehran has sent Hezbollah hundreds of millions of dollars obtained through oil sales over ...
After more than two years of civil war, tens of thousands of deaths, a refugee crisis, ethnic cleansing, religious strife, terrorism, chemical warfare, and an international conflict that has engulfed ...
Barring any international intervention or rebel advancement, Bashar al-Assad will be the President for another year, at least, if Iran is to be believed. Their friendship will live on. Speaking at a ...