Amid renewed relations with Libya, Russia is relying on the Al-Khadim base near Benghazi to strengthen its military presence ...

The UAE’s interventionist foreign policy, backing Assad in Syria and the RSF in Sudan, has backfired, damaging its global ...

The reports began trickling in barely 24 hours after Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad was ousted. “Several Assad regime officials arrive in Libya’s Benghazi,” read a headline on a local ...

About seven months ago, a group of 25 Syrian youths, including minors, set off from Libya on an irregular migration journey ...

It was after Bashar al-Assad violently clamped down on protesters in 2011 that Syria was plunged into a 13-year civil war, in the course of which 500,000 people are thought to have been killed ...

The ex-dictator of Syria, Bashar Assad, is lucky that, unlike fellow deposed tyrants, he didn’t end up dead at the end of a rope like Saddam Hussein of Iraq or dead at the end of a sewer pipe… ...

Few will mourn Bashar al-Assad’s rule. ... Libya, and Yemen. Assad’s ouster and similar dynamics in some regional countries may soon claim scalps of other long-term dictators.

Bashar’s father, Hafez al-Assad, was a significant Arab leader along with Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya. Together, they were close allies of the Soviet Union, and ...

Vogue magazine published a profile on Asma al-Assad, the wife of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. ... Libya, Yemen, and Syria by storm. Around the same time in 2011, ...

Bashar al-Assad, for all his autocratic power, cultivated a relatively modest public image. He flaunted nothing like the mega-yachts and network of marble baroque and rococo palaces of Iraq’s ...

Bashar al-Assad’s downfall evokes memories of uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen, each of which brought civil war or authoritarian rule. Syrians hope for better.