A day after entering Aleppo, rebels have reportedly seized most of the city, Syria’s second-largest, pushed south toward Hama and captured much of Idlib province on Saturday in their surprise ...
How did Assad gain power? Through old-fashioned dynastic succession. He became president in 2000 after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad, a tyrant who had ruled Syria for 30 years.
James Lankford (R-OK), who serves on the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee, is expressing some concern about her 2017 visit to Syria, in which she met with Syrian President Bashar Assad and ...