Al-Monitor on MSN9h
'It was a mafia': Details emerge on how Bashar al-Assad family sucked Syria dry
From a Bond villain lair in the rugged heights overlooking Damascus, the all-seeing eye of a notorious Syrian military unit ...
Al Jazeera English on MSN4d
Hama: A rebellious Syrian town that can finally mourn the Assad massacre
The city can finally mourn the tens of thousands of victims of Hafez al-Assad and the massacre he ordered 43 years ago.
Foreign Affairs10d
In Assad’s Fall, an Echo of the Arab Spring
The toppling of Bashar al-Assad in Syria shattered the illusion that stability in the Middle East can be sustained through brute force. The Syrian regime was one of the most brutal in the world. Its ...
Syria holds national dialogue to chart a path after Bashar al-Assad
Nearly three months after Assad fled, much of Syria is suspended between relief at the dictatorship’s demise and anxiety over ...
The New York Times29d
Syria’s New Interim President Travels to Saudi Arabia for First Foreign Visit
Image A defaced portrait of Bashar al-Assad in December inside a captured police station in Homs, Syria.Credit...David Guttenfelder/The New York Times Iran has had its influence across the region ...