One user wrote, “Dr. Assad will return to ophthalmology after being deposed as president of Syria and plans to set up an eye clinic in Russia.” There is no evidence for this claim. If he was ...

Syria has been a work in progress, a nation to be rebuilt, since the downfall of its autocratic president, Bashar al-Assad, a ...

The Telegram account General SVR is popular with British tabloids but has a less-than-perfect track record for truth.