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President of Syria from 2000 to 2024
Since the Soviet breakup in 1991, major conflicts that sources attribute to Russian state action include the two Chechen wars (1994–2009 period), the 2008 Russo–Georgian War over South Ossetia and Abk...
President Donald Trump hosted Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House on November 10, 2025 — a former al‑Qaeda-linked militant who was recently removed from U.S. terrorist sanctions — and tha...
Arresting sitting or former national leaders abroad under ICC warrants, Interpol notices or universal‑jurisdiction orders is rare but not unprecedented: Omar al‑Bashir and Muammar Gaddafi were the ear...
Ahmed al‑Sharaa, leader of the rebel coalition that toppled Bashar al‑Assad in December 2024, was appointed Syria’s transitional (interim) president on 29 January 2025 and has led the interim governme...
Tulsi Gabbard broke with Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic leadership on foreign policy, notably opposing U.S. interventionism and meeting Syria’s Bashar al‑Assad to argue for ending regime‑change efforts, a ...
President Donald Trump met in the Oval Office and hosted Syrian President Ahmed al‑Sharaa at the White House on November 10, 2025; al‑Sharaa is widely reported in the supplied coverage as a onetime le...
Several countries and international courts have in recent decades sought to indict or prosecute sitting heads of state, most prominently the ICC’s warrants (e.g., Omar al‑Bashir) and national attempts...
France is not a straightforward "ally" of Syria in the traditional sense of a long-standing strategic partner; relations were broken after 2011 when Paris condemned the Assad regime and closed its emb...
Ahmed al-Sharaa (also Abu Mohammad al-Julani) is repeatedly reported as the former leader of Hay’at Tahrir al‑Sham (HTS), an organisation long designated as a terrorist group by the UN, EU and until m...
The Syrian civil war began after nationwide pro‑democracy protests in March 2011 that challenged President Bashar al‑Assad’s authoritarian rule; the government’s violent repression transformed demonst...
Leaked emails published by Drop Site and reported across multiple outlets show Jeffrey Epstein acted as a networked intermediary for former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and others — arranging mee...
Nancy Pelosi did not publicly respond to Tulsi Gabbard’s comments on Jake Tapper; available records show , and Democratic leadership largely remained silent on matters involving Gabbard’s controversia...