Trump Seems to Realize Assad Is No Ally Against Islamic State
The Syrian dictator is not going to help defeat the self-declared caliphate. He helped create it.
The Syrian dictator is not going to help defeat the self-declared caliphate. He helped create it.
Contrary to what you might expect, Europe is actually the continent with the fewest dynasts in power.
Syria’s Bashar Assad is not a bulwark against fanaticism and war. He is the enabler of both.
John Kerry calls for negotiations but the State Department insists he didn’t mean with Assad.
Analysis of Syrian counterterrorism operations confirms the regime is avoiding the Islamic State.
A strategy to defeat the Islamists would be incomplete without a plan to remove its sponsor in Damascus.
While rebels advance on his Alawite homeland, the Syrian leader claims victory is within reach.
Any proposal to prosecute Syrian officials would probably fail in the Security Council.
Syria’s president and his Russian ally point to Muslim extremists among the opposition.
The president urges Syrians to defend their country against an alien rebellion.
The Free Syrian Army has fortitude and courage. But Bashar al-Assad has the weapons and firepower.
Those on the Syrian leader’s side will not leave until they see a better future for themselves elsewhere.
The defection of a top Syrian officer appears to be the first crack in Bashar Assad’s inner circle.
Syria’s president accuses Turkey of interfering in his country’s “internal affairs.”
The Syrian president exploits the sectarian divide that defines the conflict in his country.