The Telegram account General SVR is popular with British tabloids but has a less-than-perfect track record for truth.

Long-Serving Dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea Receives “Lifetime Non-Achievement Award” ...

Ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad planned to keep fighting rebel forces in the country before Russia evacuated him, according to a statement attributed to him released Monday. “My departure from ...

declared they had ousted President Bashar al-Assad and he had fled Damascus on Sunday. But what is HTS, and how did it rock the long-simmering tensions in Syria? HTS is a Sunni Islamist militant ...

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In an unexpected development Saturday night, Syrian rebels who had been fighting ...

The offensive triggered the “death spiral” of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, as a mixed coalition of former rebels, local strongmen, and regular people, suddenly emboldened, captured the southern ...

An anti-government fighter tears down a portrait of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo after rebels and their allies entered the northern Syrian city on November 30, 2024. (Photo by ...

Photo by AREF TAMMAWI/AFP via Getty Images Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s murderer-in-chief, has fled to Moscow. The people are celebrating, tearing down posters of Assad and statues of his equally ...

President Bashar al-Assad had kept opposition forces at bay for a decade with help from Russia and Iran. But rebels struck at a moment of weakness for those countries. By Neil MacFarquhar The ...