The fall of Bashar al-Assad is a major blow for Iran
After the routing by Israel of Hamas and Hizbullah, its two main proxies in the region, the fall of Mr Assad, its third, is a further sign of Iran’s waning influence. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, likes to say that his country is nearing its ghaleh, or zenith. But he must wonder whether it is already behind him.
By Vali Nasr, the Majid Khadduri professor of Middle East studies and international affairs at Johns Hopkins University’s ...
Rebels stormed Damascus and were victorious in ousting Bashar al-Assad this weekend. Much of the international community ...
And now Iran’s longtime stalwart ally and client in Syria, President Bashar Assad, is gone. As dawn broke Sunday, rebel ...
The ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, after rebel forces swept into Damascus this weekend, shattered Iran's network ...
Iran, which also backed the Assad regime, has said that it expects “friendly” relations with Syria to continue. In a ...
The main commander of the Syrian fighters who deposed strongman Bashar al-Assad said Wednesday that anyone involved in the torture and killing of people Assad detained during his iron-fisted rule ...
The main commander of the fighters who toppled Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday that he would dissolve the security forces of the former regime, close its prisons and hunt down anyone involved in the ...
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