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They said Assad was bad.Here is the new leader of Syria.(Information about Muhammad al-Juwayni and the terrorist group taking over Syria at link) Bush invaded Iraq for weapons of mass destruction and found none.Obama and Hillary took out Gaddafi in Libya and unleashed the Arab spring. What will happen next?

Syria's ousted President Bashar al Assad has arrived in Moscow, Russian state media has confirmed. Assad and members of his family arrived in the city, where they have been given asylum, on Sunday, a Kremlin source told the TASS news agency. Assad left the Syrian capital of Damascus and gave orders for there to be a peaceful transfer of power, after an anti-regime uprising ended his 24-year rule.

Donald Trump doubled down Sunday on hard-line campaign pledges to impose trade tariffs and carry out mass deportations, while dangling the idea that the United States could withdraw from NATO. In his first formal television interview -- and just six weeks before he takes office -- Trump again signaled that US support for Ukraine will scale back, saying he will "probably" cut the aid helping Kyiv repel the Russian invasion. Trump also said he would "very quickly" look at pardons for supporters jailed for storming the US Capitol after his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden. The interview on NBC's...

President-elect Trump reacted Sunday morning to the news that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad had fled Syria after rebels stormed the capital city of Damascus. "Assad is gone," Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. "He has fled his country. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer. There was no reason for Russia to be there in the first place. They lost all interest in Syria because of Ukraine, where close to 600,000 Russian soldiers lay wounded or dead, in a war that should never have started, and could...

On November 27, a powerful force led by Islamist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched an offensive in northern Syria. Taking advantage of the dysfunctional Assad regime forces – the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) – and Russia’s preoccupation with its grinding war in Ukraine, HTS and its Turkish-supported allies advanced to the south – and swiftly liberated the city of Aleppo from Syrian strongman Bashar Al-Assad, his SAA and his Russian backers. (snip) The Russians know Tartus is in trouble. On December 3, commercial satellite imagery revealed that every major Russian warship known to operate from Tartus – three missile...

President-elect Donald Trump said that both Iran and Russia are in a "weakened state" following Syria being taken over by rebels. "Russia and Iran are in a weakened state right now, one because of Ukraine and a bad economy, the other because of Israel and its fighting success," Trump wrote on TRUTH Social. "Likewise, Zelenskyy and Ukraine would like to make a deal and stop the madness. They have ridiculously lost 400,000 soldiers, and many more civilians. There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin."

Kyiv is ready to make a deal with Moscow to stop the war in Ukraine, and Russian President Vladimir Putin should make efforts toward negotiating a truce, United States President-elect Donald Trump said early Sunday. "There should be an immediate cease-fire and negotiations should begin" in order to "stop the madness," Trump said in a post on Truth Social. "Too many lives are being so needlessly wasted, too many families destroyed, and if it keeps going, it can turn into something much bigger, and far worse," he said. "I know Vladimir well. This is his time to act. China can...