Syria’s Assad wins 4th term with 95% of vote, in election the West calls fraudulent
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a fourth term in office with 95.1% of the votes in an election that will extend his rule over a...
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Air strikes on Syrian rebel enclave intensify
Air strikes targeted rebel-held cities in northwest Syria on Friday, a war monitor reported, widening bombardment of the last major insurgent enclave to areas that...
UK foreign minister: Assad will be around for a while
British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will remain in place for “a while” thanks to support from Russia,...
Major powers seeking deal on new Syria constitution body
Russia, Iran and Turkey are nearing agreement on the composition of a Syria committee that could pave the way for the drafting of a new constitution and...
Germany continues to believe Syria must one day see regime change
Germany continues to believe that the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad must be replaced at the end of a peace process, but acknowledges the realities...
Russia offers rebels safe passage out of eastern Ghouta
The Russian military has offered Syrian rebels safe passage out of eastern Ghouta, setting out a deal by which the opposition would surrender its last major...
Russia’s Putin hosts Syria’s Assad for talks
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to talk about the need to move from military operations to the search for a political...
Syria’s Assad says Western plots against him foiled but war not yet won
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday his country had foiled Western designs to topple him but his army had not...
US chemical weapons warning to Syria ‘unacceptable’ (Update)
Russia denounced a US warning to the Syrian leadership that it will pay a heavy price for any chemical weapons attack, and dismissed White House assertions...
FBME: Assad’s WMD front company implicated in Magnitsky case
A report drafted by the accounting firm Ernst & Young (EY) on FBME Bank (Cyprus) in 2014 appears to implicate Balec Ventures Inc, a front company linked...
