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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Monday branded an Islamist-led offensive that has captured swathes of territory a bid to redraw the map of the region in line with US interests. His comments ...

Barzani and Abdi met in Erbil on Friday to discuss Kurdish unity against the backdrop of the events in Syria, over a month after Bashar al-Assad’s regime was toppled by an Islamist-led coalition ...

WASHINGTON — Kurdish leaders in Iraq and Syria are pledging to collaborate closely to advance Kurdish rights in Syria following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime last month.

Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, has emerged as a key broker among Syrian Kurds in opposition to President Bashar Al-Assad. Barzani spoke at the Washington Institute for ...

As Syrians celebrate the end of the tyrannical regime of Bashar al-Assad, the war-weary Syrian state faces a combustible set of challenges to its political, security, and territorial governance.

When Bashar al-Assad assumed power in Syria in 2000, Western leaders heralded him as a beacon for reform and economic liberalism. The facade did not last long. His rule contributed to the deaths ...

It makes perfect sense that Mr. al-Assad would fit in a little tête-à-tête with Mr. Putin ahead of the former’s meeting with the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, at Damascus on Sunday. Only a ...

Only weeks ago, Arab nations had been working hard to bring Bashar al-Assad back into the fold, assuming he was there to last. They were badly mistaken. Listen to this article · 8:03 min Learn more ...

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