Key Takeaway: Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping has expanded his military purges to include two of the seniormost officers in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Xi may have purged them because he saw them as undermining his leadership and military objectives. The continued purges have reduced the …

Syrians are looking ahead to the next stage in the country’s development, with governance and democracy crunch issues that could determine Syria’s future. How do you govern a country you never expected to rule? That is the question now facing Syria’s transitional government, as it seeks to undo half a …

The Washington Post quoted a United Nations report that Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, Interior Minister Anas Khattab, and Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani were the targets of five assassination attempts that were thwarted over the past year. According to the newspaper, Thursday, February 12, the information was based on a report …