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In a dramatic turn of events last week, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol imposed and withdrew martial law, all within a span of six hours. Yoon’s unprecedented move – the first time martial law has been imposed since 1979 – has been widely condemned as an abuse of presidential power and a gamble to fight […]
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has come full circle and then some on Syria. At the dawn of the Erdogan era, Turkey’s then-prime minister was Bashar al Assad’s patron—once even proposing that the Erdogan and Assad families vacation together. The two leaders fell out after Assad turned his military against the uprising that began in […]
On Dec. 8, Bashar al-Assad fled Syria, bringing an end to nearly 54 years of his family’s rule and sending millions of Syrians at home and abroad into a state of euphoria and relief. Over a dramatic 12 days, an armed opposition offensive that had begun west of Aleppo on Nov. 27 triggered the precipitous […]