While many criticized the chairman’s views as outdated and regressive, others found humor in the absurdity of his remarks, launching a meme fest online.

The Chopped Chin meme, also known as the I’ve Been Running Into You In My Head meme, derives from a video of WNBA veteran Renee Montgomery and her cousin Angel Wiley dancing in their seats at an ...

his father Hafez al-Assad—no one anticipated how quickly the regime would collapse. As the world watched Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) lead rebel forces first to Aleppo, then to Hama, and then to ...

A series of memes known as the Chopped Chin memes have recently gone viral ... Do the dance, do the dance, do the dance -- do the nod, do the nod -- No," Wiley said. Further, Wiley said he would ...

Now, however, the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria has presented the U.S. with a similar opportunity. For years, Beijing has consistently sided with Bashar al-Assad in his brutal repression ...

The tunnels, seen by an AFP correspondent, are among secrets of president Bashar al-Assad’s rule exposed since rebels toppled him on December 8. “We entered this enormous barracks of the ...

But soon after the Syrian civil war erupted in 2011, the military under President Bashar al-Assad closed the mountain to civilians. Suddenly, instead of families and friends shooting fireworks ...

On Jan. 1, 2025, several media outlets including Newsweek and The Sun reported on a supposed poison attack on the exiled former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, who resides in Russia, as of this ...

At the time of this reporting, the claim that Assad had been poisoned, or that he complained about feeling unwell, has no independent confirmation and is therefore unlikely to be credible. "Exiled ...

So when Islamist rebels toppled Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, locals rushed to see the site ... This mission was done – but there was no rest for the team. Habib said his team was ...

But the fall of Assad may have closed that chapter for her. "Now I can say I have an identity. I'm no longer so lost in who I am," she said. Middle East Eye delivers independent and unrivalled ...

Countless other inmates — both criminals and Assad opponents — simply vanished after being incarcerated there. In 2017, the U.S. State Department said the Assad regime was using a crematorium ...