The sudden regime overthrow in Syria and the long-delayed opportunity to confront the legacy of Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny are either being celebrated or condemned, as explored below, but they ...

Russia's operations across Africa are now in jeopardy, compromised by the abrupt collapse of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime with looming questions hanging over the Kremlin about ...

U.S. officials said sanctions against targets such as its central bank would end, but they would remain on Syria’s former ...

At least 500 Syrian fighters sent to Africa Rebel sources said the first group that has been deployed, in February, included at least 500 fighters, with many staying in Niger and others leaving ...

With developing nations crushed by unaffordable borrowing and Washington on the sidelines, some leaders are brokering debt ...

They include facilities in Libya, Mali, the Central African Republic, and Sudan. Moving a significant amount of military equipment from Russia or Syria to Africa, however, will be costly, experts say.

Russia says nearly 16,000 foreign volunteers are ready to fight on their side – many from the Middle East and Africa, where Putin has invested in bolstering governments and military actors. It ...

Though Russia’s ability to engage with Syria’s new leaders remains uncertain, Assad’s ouster has greatly diminished its confidence and power-projection capacity in Africa.

There was first, the South African government’s two-faced approach to Israel ... Syrian chaos. Another new factor that makes BDS work more important everywhere, is Syria’s new government.

Yet no one doubts the danger that a full-fledged collapse of Syrian central state power – and ultimately a far worse balkanisation and extremist Islamic state – may result from the turmoil. And for ...