Bashar al-Assad Exploited Alawites’ Fear
Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...
US ‘prepared Syrian rebel group to help topple Bashar al-Assad’
The United States prepared a rebel force to join the offensive that overthrew the regime of Bashar al-Assad, fighters have ...
Why is Israel attacking Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad?
Israel is celebrating the fall of Assad because it breaks the noose that Iran had been patiently tightening around Israel’s ...
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With al-Assad Gone, the Risk of an ISIS Resurgence Grows
Countering the Islamic State is not straightforward ... To prevent ISIS from filling vacuums left by President Bashar al-Assad’s fall, the United States and its allies must use every tool ...
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Syria's U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition faces an uncertain future after Assad's ouster
Assad's ouster, there are questions about the fate of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition that ...
The Conversation10d
Why is Israel attacking Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad?
Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the fall of Bashar al-Assad this month ... view of Israel’s wider conflict with the Islamic Republic, the collapse of Assad’s regime is a strategic victory.
Clashes between Islamists now in power in Syria and Assad's supporters leave casualties
Clashes between Islamists who took over Syria and supporters of ousted President Bashar Assad's government have killed two ...
USA Today18d
US has $10 million bounty on Syrian rebel leader al-Golani. Now we need his help. | Opinion
Consider the life of Syrian revolutionary Abu Mohammed al-Golani, who led the insurgency that drove Syrian dictator Bashar ... the Islamic State group, Russia, Iran and Assad.
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Iran’s supreme leader accuses U.S. and Israel of orchestrating Assad ouster
In his first address since the toppling of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iran’s supreme leader ... His remarks, while steeped in the Islamic Republic’s rhetorical tradition of ...
New York Post19d
Inside now-exiled President Bashar al-Assad’s abandoned mansion in Syria — and his new life in Russia
President Bashar al-Assad has left Syria behind ... Members of Jaish al-Islam, an Islamist and Salafist alliance with ties to al-Qaeda and other rebels, stormed the sprawling estate in the ...