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June 30, 2020
Middle East and North Africa
Can Syria’s Assad Regime Survive a New Wave of Threats?
New U.S. sanctions under the Caesar Act could compound the economic turmoil threatening to undo the Assad regime.
April 1, 2016
Syria
Who Is Bashar al-Assad?
Experts analyze the leadership style, psychology, personality, and policy choices of Syria's President Bashar-al Assad.
November 1, 2011
Middle East and North Africa
Assad’s Nuclear Ambitions
The extent of the Assad regime’s nuclear ambitions became even clearer this week. It turns out that in addition to buying a plutonium production reactor from North Korea, Syria was also working on a …
August 29, 2011
United States
How Will Assad Fall?
It is easy to say that with Qaddafi gone, the next vicious regime to fall is that of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. ‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished, but realists and pessimists have rightly aske…
October 15, 2016
Iran
Assad Bows to Iran, Even in Clothing
Check out these two photos of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad, celebrating the Eid al-Adha in 2012 and 2016. The men to his left and right are the same people, dressed the same way. But Assad is no…
