Turkey threatened Tuesday to launch military operations against Kurdish forces in Syria unless they accepted Ankara's conditions for a "bloodless" transition after the fall of strongman president ...
Assad, who ruled Syria for over two decades, was the victim of an attempted poisoning in Moscow. Social media account General SVR, reportedly run by an ex-top Russian spy, claimed that Assad had ...
Bashar al-Assad came to power in 2000, succeeding his father, Hafez al-Assad, who ruled Syria with an iron grip for nearly three decades. Initially, there were hopes that Bashar would bring reform ...