Turkey is filling the power vacuum left by Assad, but peaceful coexistence is vital for the Middle East’s future
Geopolitics abhors a power vacuum. One country’s loss is another’s gain, and the space left by Iran is being occupied, for ...
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After Assad: Syria’s Fractured Path Forward
While the fall of the Assad dynasty represents an epochal turning point for Syrians, the future remains in all senses ...
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INTERNATIONAL VIEW - Assad’s fall in Syria exposes Tehran's miscalculation
The dictator Bashar al-Assad, who used barbaric force to crush ... Washington had considered intervening on the side of the insurgents, but mostly stayed on the sidelines. Since 2014, U.S. troops ...
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The History That Syria’s New Leaders Will Need to Overcome
One side was led by Aflaq and al-Bitar, two prominent Ba’ath politicians, and the other by Salah Jadid and Hafez al-Assad, an ultra-left-wing general and the commander of the Syrian Air Forces ...
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How the Assad regime made billions producing and exporting party drugs
Now that the Assad regime in Syria has fallen, the full scale of that government's production and distribution of illicit drugs is coming to light. Leila Molana-Allen reports from the drug ...
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Syria’s Alawite Minority, Favored by the Assads, Looks Nervously to the Future
By Raja Abdulrahim Photographs by Ivor Prickett Reporting from al-Qardaha, Syria The walls of the mausoleum for late President Hafez al-Assad are scrawled with graffiti now — things that Syrians ...