A damaged portrait of Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad lies on the ground in the western Syrian port city of Latakia. Islamist-led rebels took Damascus in a lightning offensive on December 8, ...
Apart from Assad, Russian President Valdimir Putin was "the biggest loser" in the toppling of the regime, Professor Ozalp said. The then-Soviet Union was a longtime ally of Assad's father, Hafez Assad ...