19 hours ago · Director of national intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard shed further light on her 2017 meeting with then-Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a trip that has come under the microscope since President Donald Trump nominated the former congresswoman. "There is not a great deal in the public record about what you and Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad discussed for so long in January of 2017.

Jan 31, 2017 · The head of the group that organized and paid for Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard’s trip to Syria says he personally financed the trip in which the Hawaii Democrat met with Syrian President Bashar...

1 day ago · WASHINGTON (AP) — When Tulsi Gabbard returned to Washington from a clandestine sit-down with Syria’s then-president Bashar Assad eight years ago this month, she was greeted with a flurry of ...

Feb 6, 2019 · Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is not the enemy of the United States, standing by her opposition to US involvement in that country’s civil war...

Dec 16, 2024 · When Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled the country, members of his own minority sect say he left them impoverished and stained with his legacy.

1 day ago · Democratic senators on the Intelligence Committee are expected to home in on Gabbard's 2017 visit to Syria to meet then-President Bashar al-Assad and pro-Russia talking points she has espoused in ...

Jan 14, 2025 · For more than a decade, some 6 million Syrians fled the Assad regime for other countries. Now, the opposite is happening. With the fall of that dictatorship last December, a new kind of refugee is fleeing Syria - those who sympathized with or even fought for the former regime.

Dec 17, 2024 · Syrian refugees living in Lebanon grapple with whether to return home now that Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship has fallen. Many are hesitating.

4 days ago · Ms. Gabbard says her positions on Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria who was recently deposed, stem from her aversion to American involvement in “regime change wars,” a stance generally ...

Jan 25, 2017 · A high-profile Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii said she met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a secret "fact-finding" trip she took to the country recently.