Ahmad al-Sharaa toppled Assad. But is Syria headed toward democracy, or did it trade one dictator for another?

EU decides to lift penalties, Trump announces sanctions to lifted during Gulf tour, as Syria going through political ...

The European Union has decided to lift economic sanctions on Syria, announced EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, aiming to ...

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US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the United States has selected a concept for its ambitious “Golden Dome” ...

In a testimony to Congress, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned that Syria could be just weeks away from a ‘full-scale civil war’.

The sanctions imposed by the United States on the Bashar al-Assad regime have been top of Syrians’ minds in the past five months since following the regime’s swift collapse in December 2024. The ...

Revelations about a president’s mood are catnip for political reporters, who look at whom the commander in chief turns to in ...

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During a meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump alleged that there was a genocide against white people in South Africa. Trump played a video purporting to ...

Trump does have the cards if he is willing to play them against Xi, his Chinese “friend.” Domestic legitimacy in a communist or other authoritarian state is always the regime’s Achilles heel, hence ...