Vladimir Putin lost no time in giving asylum to “Butcher of Damascus” Bashar al-Assad, one of the most merciless, amoral despots of the modern era, who has the blood of an estimated 600,000 people on ...
The world watched as Islamist rebels seized Damascus and Bashar al-Assad, whose family has ruled Syria for decades, fled to seek refuge with his long-time ally Russia. Now, some are concerned about th ...
Christopher Hitchens called him the human toothbrush. The writer recalled Hannah Arendt's phrase the "banality of evil" when he remembered meeting another dictator, Argentina's General Videla. But it ...