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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...
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...
Documented reporting shows has publicly praised and expressed admiration for multiple authoritarian leaders and has made statements that normalize or praise dictatorship—most recently saying “” at and...
mantuvo una relación ambivalente y tácticamente variable con la población kurda de : combinó décadas de discriminación y represión con episodios de retirada militar que permitieron autonomía de facto ...
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...
, más conocido por su nom de guerre , fue el fundador y emir del —la rama siria vinculada a — y hoy figura en los reportes internacionales como el líder del grupo que tomó Damasco y colocó a Al‑Jolani...
is in the midst of a rapid government drive to reassert control over the northeast, with forces of interim president seizing key towns, oilfields and border crossings and negotiating a ceasefire that ...
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...
’s December 8, 2024 victory speech at the in Damascus framed the ouster of as a repudiation of ian influence and ’s presence in , signaling both a domestic consolidation and a aimed at and its proxies...
The relationship between ’s regime and during the n conflict was complex and pragmatic rather than a simple alliance: substantial reporting and analysis allege that Syrian state actors at times facili...
la relación entre y transitó de una tensa coexistencia a la confrontación abierta y luego a intentos pragmáticos de normalización, en los que trató a como un enemigo por su y como interlocutor clave p...
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...
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...