The recent fall of Bashar al-Assad and his brutal regime in Syria has renewed hope that Tice will be found some 12 years after he was abducted during a reporting trip outside of Damascus.
The government’s fall, on Dec. 8, was the end of a brutal civil war that began in 2011, when Mr. al-Assad cracked down on peaceful pro-democracy protests during the Arab Spring. An estimated ...
After the routing by Israel of Hamas and Hizbullah, its two main proxies in the region, the fall of Mr Assad, its third, is a further sign of Iran’s waning influence. Iran’s supreme leader ...