Bashar Assad

Assad’s Syria manipulated the region, will the new Syria do the same?

The question now is whether the new Syrian government will seek to try to play countries against each other or work to be a unifying and stabilizing force in the region

Year in review: The Jerusalem Post's top 10 news stories of 2024

The year 2024 has been an eventful one, and now it is wrapping up. With the benefit of hindsight, The Jerusalem Post looks back at the biggest news stories and events around the world of 2024.

Carter’s legacy: A misguided trip to meet Assad and Hamas in 2009

Carter had a chance to speak truth to power to these regimes. He was a much more harsh critic of Israel and the Palestinian Authority than of Hamas and Assad.

After fleeing Syria, Assad's wife eyes native London for medical procedures

Asma Al-Assad has previously survived breast cancer but is now seeking treatment for leukaemia.

Syrian Jews can finally visit one of the oldest synagogues in the world

Syria's historic Jobar synagogue is safe to visit after years of war, revealing looting and heavy damage.

 Fighters of the ruling Syrian body patrol the streets in Homs, Syria, December 26, 2024

Lebanon returns 70 officers, soldiers to Syria, security official says

Reuters reported that one of the Syrian soldiers that was returned was Rifaat Assad, Bashar Assad's uncle.

By REUTERS
28/12/2024

'I thought Gaza, Lebanon, Jenin were exciting – then I went to Syria'

Unlike Gaza and Lebanon, Syria had a full-fledged army with tanks, aircraft, and chemical weapons, and a well-guarded dangerous border.

Assessing Turkish intentions after Assad's regime fall

BEHIND THE LINES - Ankara appears set on a two-sided strategy to unify Syria under the rule of its Sunni Islamist client

SYRIA’S DE FACTO leader, Abu Mohammed al-Julani, attends a meeting with former rebel faction chiefs,

Letter to a Syrian rebel (II): 'Your trauma and ours are different'

MIDDLE ISRAEL - Recent events have given Middle Israelis no solid reason to change these somber expectations. That is why this letter is not about your relationship with us.

Selective moral outrage causes double standard across Middle East

If social justice warriors truly care about justice, they must broaden their focus beyond selective targets and confront the realities of regimes like Assad’s. Anything less is moral bankruptcy.

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