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The departure of Assad marks the end of over a half-century of rule by the Alawite Assad family and over 60 years of the secular, Baathist Syrian Arab Republic.

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Nesrin, it is a pleasure to sit down with you for this interview on your first visit to the Education International head ...

“Syria is a mess but is not our friend," Donald Trump declared in mid-December as the 13-year-long Syrian civil war culminated in the shockingly swift collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s Baathist ...

Damascus requested formal support for defense and counterterrorism, Ankara says, assuring its commitment to Syria’s ...

Ankara reiterated concerns over the future of Syria in case of separatism threats as the National Security Council convened ...

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Bashar Assad’s regime, like Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime in neighboring Iraq, had largely afforded Syria’s Christians the opportunity to participate in society without threat of ...

We have a golden opportunity to help give the Syrian people what they’ve long been demanding and deserve — a free and fair democracy. That’s good for Syria, and good for America and our allies.

To those familiar with the relationship between Baathist Syria and the Palestinian cause and people, the events at Yarmouk will not come as any surprise. But the Palestinian people as a whole should ...