Bashar Al Assad
		Russia to reduce troops in Syria by end of year
		
			Middle East
			
				
				 
		
	November 24, 2017
Russia to reduce troops in Syria by end of year
						Russia’s military plans to reduce its involvement in Syria this year as it nears the completion of its goals there,…					
				
			
		Syria’s opposition, divided and varied, to get a new face
		
			Middle East
			
				
				 
		
	November 23, 2017
Syria’s opposition, divided and varied, to get a new face
						Syria’s notoriously fragmented opposition gathering Wednesday in the Saudi capital is trying to close ranks and come up with a…					
				
			
		Uncertainty as Mideast turns a page with IS defeat in Raqqa
		
			Middle East
			
				
				 
		
	October 19, 2017
Uncertainty as Mideast turns a page with IS defeat in Raqqa
						The Middle East may have turned a page with the defeat of the Islamic State group in its self-declared capital…					
				
			
		Opposition says 150 civilians killed in Russian, Syrian raids on Idlib
		
			Middle East
			
				
				 
		
	September 28, 2017
Opposition says 150 civilians killed in Russian, Syrian raids on Idlib
						Russian and Syrian jets killed at least 150 civilians and injured dozens in over a week of heavy bombing that…					
				
			
		Short of allies, Syria’s rebels are down but not out
		
			Middle East
			
				
				 
		
	June 1, 2017
Short of allies, Syria’s rebels are down but not out
						They are veterans of Syria’s rebellion, trying for years to bring down President Bashar Assad. But these days they’re doing…					
				
			
		Assad’s mother in Dubai: Syrians
		
			World
			
				
				 
		
	January 20, 2013
Assad’s mother in Dubai: Syrians
						Anisa Makhluf, the mother of President Bashar al-Assad, has left the war-torn country and joined her daughter in Dubai, Syrian…					
				
			
		Syrians stage protests in Cairo against Russian support for Assad
		
			Egypt
			
				
				 
		
	September 18, 2011
Syrians stage protests in Cairo against Russian support for Assad
						Scores of Syrians staged protests outside the Russian Embassy in Cairo on Sunday, condemning Russian support for Bashar al-Assad’s regime,…					
				
			
		Egypt’s Tantawi expresses hopes of ending Syrian-Egyptian estrangement
		
			Egypt
			
				
				 
		
	March 11, 2011
Egypt’s Tantawi expresses hopes of ending Syrian-Egyptian estrangement
						A Syrian news agency reported that Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, chairman of Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces--which…					
				
			
		Syria-Egypt rapprochement failed, says al-Assad
		
			Egypt
			
				
				 
		
	October 26, 2010
Syria-Egypt rapprochement failed, says al-Assad
						Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said that overcoming long-term discord in Egyptian-Syrian political relations requires an Egyptian initiative. "I haven't…					
				
			
		Rights researchers say thousands forcibly disappeared in Syrian prisons
		
			World
			
				
				 
		
	June 14, 2010
Rights researchers say thousands forcibly disappeared in Syrian prisons
						Paris--Coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the death of former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad's and the nomination of his son…