It took Assad’s regime to fall and Putin to accept it meekly for the West to appreciate that things weren’t all that rosy in ...

After decades of incessant distortion of history and Israel’s legal position and after more than a year of propaganda in the ...

Other close watchers of Syria have also pointed to another key factor: a tiny white pill with a pair of interlocking half-moons on one side -- a ... "In my view, the Assad regime turning to ...

The rebels who toppled Assad view Iran as a hostile foreign influence, and the abandoned Iranian Embassy in Damascus was ransacked as they entered the city. The Foreign Ministry statement said ...

USSR-style propaganda portraits began to dominate our view, urging a different kind of consumption: the unquestioning embrace of an ideology, embodied by one man, Hafez al-Assad. “Why are there ...

In their view, Assad played a major role in Iran's strategy ... I won’t name them, but I suspect movements from the other side will begin, and we have seen examples of such situations in Libya ...

However, time is not on the side of the rebels. The longer it takes to form a replacement government, the greater are the risks that it might never materialise. Assad’s downfall has given hope ...

MAJDAL SHAMS, Israeli-occupied Golan Heights — Within hours of rebels taking control of Syria’s capital, Israel moved to seize military posts in that country’s south, sending its troops ...