YEARENDER: Inflation, elections and war dominated 2024
Inflation dropped in most economies around the world in 2024, but voters didn’t care. Angered by the hefty ramp-up in prices for everything from eggs […]
Syria’s Assad and family in Moscow after being granted asylum —reports
Syria’s former President Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow with his family after Russia granted them asylum on humanitarian grounds, a Kremlin source told Russian news […]
Iron-fisted Assad never quelled the Syrian rebels who came back to topple him
Syria’s Bashar al-Assad used Russian and Iranian firepower to beat back rebel forces during years of civil war but never defeated them, leaving him vulnerable […]