- Assad claims he wished to keep fighting as Syrian regime fell but Russians evacuated him (theguardian.com)Why America’s Kurdish Allies Are Under Threat in a New Syria (nytimes.com)Assad uncle used Guernsey adviser to secretly manage vast wealth (theguardian.com)Sacks of chemicals, plastic fruit … and millions of pills: inside a Damascus Captagon factory (theguardian.com)
- As expected, annual inflation rate accelerates in November – but to only 2.7% (cnbc.com)
- New York Times Runs Dozens of Stories About Slain CEO – But Hasn’t Covered the Killing of Teenager in Possible Hate Crime Just a Few Miles Away (mediaite.com)
- Iran Makes ‘Dramatic’ Leap to Produce Near-Bomb-Grade Fuel, but to What End? (nytimes.com)
- Biden touts his legacy, but frustration seeps through (washingtonpost.com)
- McConnell Sprained Wrist During a Fall but Is ‘Fine’ (nytimes.com)
- Tulsi Gabbard’s Pro-Putin Views Alarm Intel Experts – But They Mirror Trump’s (huffpost.com)Gabbard, Trump Intel pick who visited Assad, meets with senators after dictator’s fall (washingtonpost.com)
- In Authoritarian Milei’s Argentina, Economic Albatross Is Tamed but Life Is Much Harder (nytimes.com)
- Trump Says He Would Let ‘Dreamers’ Stay. But He Once Tried to Gut the Program. (nytimes.com)
- Syrian prime minister says government is still functioning but foreign and domestic challenges loom (abcnews.go.com)Rebels Assert Control in Damascus as Questions Loom Over Their Plans (nytimes.com)How It Happened: 2 Seismic Weeks That Toppled Syria's Government (huffpost.com)Biden officials race to help stabilize Syria after regime collapse (washingtonpost.com)UN Security Council to discuss shock overthrow of Syria’s Assad (semafor.com)Road to Damascus Littered With Relics of Fallen Assad Government (static01.nyt.com)Inside the hunt for hidden cells in Sednaya prison, Syria’s ‘human slaughterhouse’ (theguardian.com)
