Syria: fall of Assad a blow for Iran’s ‘Shia crescent’ – here are its foreign policy options in the new-look Middle East
When Hafez al-Assad, an Alawite minority member, seized control of the Ba'ath Party in Syria in 1970, he faced a significant backlash. The Syrian Constitution stipulated that only Muslims could hold the presidency, and the Alawites were deemed non-Muslim by many Sunni groups.
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.
"We will not allow these groups to appear again and threaten the security and stability of Iraq," Nujaba Movement told ...
Outside, the ornate turquoise tiles on the embassy's façade are intact, but the defaced giant image of Iran's vastly ...
I have reported from the ground in all the countries concerned over decades: Turkey, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon and ...
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Set it off: How US invasion of Iraq led to chaos in Syria todayWashington torched the region and watched it burn through regime changes, Arab Spring, civil wars, and the regeneration of ...
Statements come as Israel continues to step up strikes across Syria after ouster of Bashar al-Assad’s government.
Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. For years, the Islamist ...
As is known, the approval for HTS to expand its military grip on Allepo province in October 2024 came from Ankara, with ...
Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick ...
Following their bilateral and tripartite meetings on Friday in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the foreign ministers of Syria ...
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