Syria's interim foreign minister says Russia-Iran ties to Assad are an open wound
Syria’s relations with Iran and Russia remain an open wound for the country’s people after the nations backed autocratic ...
Kurds in the new Syria want to preserve the cultural rights they gained in years of war
Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...
The Armenian Weekly7d
A parallel analysis: Syria’s current crisis and regional protests of the 1950s
The Middle East underwent immense changes in the 1950s due to political instability and ideological shifts. This period, ...
The Washington Post6d
Syria could allow Russia to keep its bases, new defense minister says
Syria then was in the throes of full-blown civil war, after the Assad government launched a brutal crackdown on a largely peaceful uprising that started during the Arab Spring. Now, Abu Qasra’s ...
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Former al Qaeda member named as Syria’s president for transitional period
A sense of duty was what Syria “needs today more than ... according to the US Center for Naval Analyses. Since then – unlike ...
U.S. News & World Report9d
Syria's Sharaa Says It Will Take 4-5 Years to Hold Presidential Election
Sharaa said that a preparatory committee would be formed to hold consultations across Syria. "Then, it will invite those we think represent the Syrian people in general," he said. The conference ...
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Snubbed in Syria, Russia Now Makes a Move on Syrian Oil
For a start, focus would turn to expanding the power sector, based on from a plan signed between Syria’s then-Electricity Minister ... “As he’s [al-Assad] gone now, I can’t see either ...