Syria's new interim government pledged to crack down on the illicit drug trade that the country's former dictator enriched ...

Just hours after Islamist rebels ousted longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...

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once nicknaming him his "favorite dictator". Trump laid out plans to "take over" the Gaza Strip, empty it from its inhabitants and turn it into a "Riviera of the Middle East," prompting Arab and ...

Three months ago the palace, perched on the mountains above the Syrian capital, was the hideout of Bashar al-Assad, off-limits to all but the former dictator ... up to the Middle East Dispatch ...

Like many dictators, Saddam Hussein endured a difficult ... earned him the nickname “madman of the Middle East.” But this label is misleading. Saddam was not "mad"; he was shrewd and ...

At least 16 government security personnel were killed in a coastal region that was long a stronghold of the toppled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.