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Mystery surrounds a plane that vanished from a flight-tracker while above Syria – sparking theories it was carrying President Assad and could have crashed or even been shot down. Flight-tracking website Flightradar 24 showed a plane believed to be carrying Bashar al-Assad leaving the Syrian capital Damascus in the early hours of Sunday morning and […]
WASHINGTON — The stunning overthrow of Syrian President Bashar Assad by Islamist rebels half a century after his family took power raises an old question when it comes to regime change in the Middle East: Will the new governing forces behave any better than those that have been deposed? “The Assad regime has fallen,” President Biden […]