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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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August 1, 2013
Middle East and North Africa
Degrading Bashar’s Air Power is Possible
Is there anything the United States can do to slow or stop the recent advances being made by Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Syria, who are getting valuable help from Iranian and Hezbollah troops? Unfor…
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…
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…
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 …
December 8, 2011
Middle East and North Africa
Assad’s Revelations
Syria's president Bashar al-Assad is pictured during an interview with Russian television in Damascus October 30, 2011 (Courtesy Reuters). While President Bashar al-Assad’s circumlocutions were frus…
