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Today — 22 December 2024Main stream

Inside the Final Days of the Assad Regime in Syria

President Bashar al-Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a fake political address.

© David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

A banner of former President Bashar al-Assad hanging north of Hama, Syria, was defaced after his ouster this month.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Its Syrian Bases in Doubt, Russia Sends Cargo Flights to Libya

20 December 2024 at 08:10
A Libyan officer said the stepped-up flights from Russia and Syria delivered military gear.

© Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency, via Getty Images

A Russian Ilyushin Il-76MD plane flies over Moscow in 2022. At least four Russian Il-76 cargo planes have made trips from Moscow or Minsk to Benghazi, in eastern Libya, and back since last Thursday.

Putin Glosses Over Russian Setbacks, Including Syria

20 December 2024 at 00:51
The Russian president, in a marathon annual news conference, said that he had not yet met with Bashar al-Assad, the ousted Syrian leader who fled to Moscow, but that he planned to.

© Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at his year-end news conference in Moscow, which has become an annual ritual.

Killing of Russian General Sends a Message, but Doesn’t Change the War for Ukraine

19 December 2024 at 00:11
Ukraine’s forces are steadily losing ground on the battlefield. The assassination of a top general in Moscow won’t improve their war effort, analysts and Western officials say.

© Associated Press

Men loading the body of a Russian general, Igor Kirillov, onto a bus after he and an aide were killed on a Moscow street on Tuesday.

BRICS Summit Offers a Glimpse Inside Putin’s Alternate Reality

25 October 2024 at 22:12
At a meeting of emerging economies, Vladimir Putin positioned himself as a respected and powerful leader, ignoring the condemnation he receives from the West.

A Modi-Xi Meeting Could Signal a Thaw Between India and China

A meeting between the two leaders comes just two days after they settled a tense border dispute in the Himalayas. But experts said their long-term geopolitical rivalry would persist.
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