Syria did not have free and fair elections under the Assads, and ruling party elites could not check the leader’s power. When citizens mobilized peacefully in 2011 to oust the Assad regime, loyal ...

Alexander Lukashenko appointed Alexander Turchin as the new Prime Minister of Belarus. The new head of the Belarusian Council ...

Alexander Lukashenko has appointed Alexander Turchin as the new Prime Minister of Belarus. Turchin will take over from Raman ...

Min Aung Hlaing says observers from dictatorial Russia and Belarus will oversee an election he is promising in Myanmar.

The Belarusian leader expressed hope that Roman Golovchenko and the country’s new prime minister, Alexander Turchin, will put ...

The announcement comes as Myanmar’s military struggles to maintain control, with armed resistance from pro-democracy fighters ...

Four years after seizing power from the elected administration, the head of the military government has declared Myanmar will ...

Myanmar's military leader announced plans for a general election by January 2026, despite ongoing civil conflict and ...

State-run media in Myanmar say the head of the military government has declared the country will hold a general election ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has offered to host Russia-Ukraine truce talks that could involve US officials, he said in an interview published Wednesday.

Lukashenko is a close Putin ally, and his country is under US and European sanctions over its support for Russia’s military ...