Ahmad Sharaa, the head of the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, will have real success by not making the same ousted ...

For the world, 2024 was riven by conflict on two fronts. As the year ends, Gaza is in shambles and tens of thousands are dead ...

Ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad said he did not consider stepping down or fleeing the country, but remained until Russia ...

To gain some insight into the year ahead, CFR fellows highlight some of the global developments they will be looking out for.

AT PENPOINTEveryone seems surprised at how fast Bashar Al-Assad fell from the Presidency of Syria, even though the uprising ...

Were you demure? Did you manifest success in your life? Why did people across the world look up the meaning of pagers in 2024 ...

The Syrian revolution started off as a bottom-up, working class uprising from the peripheries organised through local ...

Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad broke his silence on the events leading to his ouster and fall of Damascus earlier this month. Assad, who fled to Russia, said he never intended to flee his ...

Syria's rebel factions will be "disbanded," the head of the group that led the ouster of Bashar al-Assad has pledged, as the ...

Think of Western values: Human rights, democracy, equality and justice have no meanings other than being empty slogans. The ...

Numerous key international figures died in 2024, ranging from Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas.

Throughout the Middle East, major actors had come to terms with Syria's brutal dictator, who had won the country's civil war ...