Putin says he saved Russia, but a year of challenges suggests Moscow’s position is precarious
Marking 25 years in office, Vladimir Putin says he has remade Russia as a sovereign power and will prevail in Ukraine, but ...
25 years ago today Vladimir Putin took power… but his brutal mafioso regime is only ever ONE STEP away from collapse
DESPITE his tyrannical rule, Putin’s fragile regime always sits just one step from collapse. The bloodthirsty tyrant seized ...
How well do you know the newsmakers of 2024? Test your knowledge with Mark Knight’s cartoon
The year 2024 was a tumultuous period for news, one to be remembered for elections, wars, Olympics and a record-breaking concert tour that stormed not just Melbourne but the world.
Brit wife of exiled Syria dictator Bashar Al-Assad 'barred from UK' amid cancer battle
London-born Asma Al-Assad is said to have a "50-50" chance of surviving leukaemia, but won't be allowed back to the UK after ...
Fall of Assad’s regime disrupts Russian army recruitment in Syria
The collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria following a lightning rebel offensive in November has shaken Assad-ally ...
The rise and fall of strongmen, and justice for a woman unbowed
It was a year of wars, election surprises, royal health scares and the reign of new queens. Within this maelstrom, one ...
Asma al-Assad: from private schoolgirl in Acton to being reportedly severely ill with leukaemia
She was once fawned over for her good looks and sharp mind, but is now seen as an accomplice to her husband’s cruelty. Claudia Cockerell on the fall of Syria’s first lady ...
Putin falsely boasts of having military alliances with 'most countries around the world'
Five ex-USSR countries maintain military alliances with Russia. Moscow also is engaged in transactional military partnerships ...
Al Bawaba News5d
Bashar Assad's wife Asma diagnosed with leukemia, 50% chance of survival
ALBAWABA - The wife of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad, Asma has been given a "50/50" chance of survival after being ...
Khaleej Times6d
Trump triumph, Assad fall, Taylor Swift mania... key events in 2024
Donald Trump's US presidential election win, the fall of Bashar Al Assad in Syria, and the Russia-Ukraine conflict were among ...
How Assad’s fall has damaged Russia’s ambitions in Africa
Samuel Ramani, an associate fellow at the RUSI think tank and the author of the book Russia in Africa, described the collapse ...
Bashar al-Assad, Putin's refugee
Since the fall of his regime, the Syrian dictator has joined family and relatives who were already in Russia. For years, the ...