Posts tagged with "Bashar al-Assad"

UK foreign minister: Assad will be around for a while Middle East

UK foreign minister: Assad will be around for a while

January 3rd, 2019 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, even though Britain's position was still that he remains a block to lasting peace. "The British long-standing position is that we won't have lasting peace in Syria with that...
Major powers seeking deal on new Syria constitution body Middle East

Major powers seeking deal on new Syria constitution body

December 18th, 2018 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 for elections after a devastating civil war, diplomats said on Tuesday. The foreign ministers of the three nations, who support opposing sides in Syria's nearly eight-year-old...
Germany continues to believe Syria must one day see regime change Middle East

Germany continues to believe Syria must one day see regime change

April 16th, 2018 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 that make this impossible in the short term, the government spokesman said on Monday. A spokeswoman for the foreign ministry told the same regular news conference that elections...
Russia offers rebels safe passage out of eastern Ghouta Middle East

Russia offers rebels safe passage out of eastern Ghouta

March 6th, 2018 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 stronghold near Damascus to President Bashar al-Assad. The Russian defence ministry said rebels could leave with their families and personal weapons through a secure corridor out...
Russia's Putin hosts Syria's Assad for talks Middle East

Russia's Putin hosts Syria's Assad for talks

November 21st, 2017 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 solution to Syria's conflict, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. Russia is actively trying to build an international consensus around a peace deal for Syria, over two years after Moscow...
Syria's Assad says Western plots against him foiled but war not yet won World

Syria's Assad says Western plots against him foiled but war not yet won

August 20th, 2017 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 yet won the fight to end Syria's six-year-old insurgency. In an televised address, Assad said that even though there were signs of victory after six-and-a-half years of civil...
US chemical weapons warning to Syria ‘unacceptable’ (Update) Middle East

US chemical weapons warning to Syria ‘unacceptable’ (Update)

June 27th, 2017 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 that a strike was being prepared as "unacceptable". The White House said on Monday the preparations in Syria were similar to actions before an April 4 chemical attack which killed...
FBME: Assad’s WMD front company implicated in Magnitsky case Cyprus

FBME: Assad’s WMD front company implicated in Magnitsky case

June 16th, 2017 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 to Syria’s weapons of mass destruction programme, to a prominent tax fraud case in Russia, known as the Magnitsky case. Quartell Trading Ltd, a company registered in the...
Syrian army retakes most of rebel-held district on edge of Damascus Middle East

Syrian army retakes most of rebel-held district on edge of Damascus

May 14th, 2017 Suleiman Al-Khalidi   The Syrian army and its allies are on the verge of completely seizing the rebel-held district of Qaboun on the edge of the capital Damascus following over two months of aerial strikes and artillery shelling, rebels and state media said on Sunday. But rebels said they still held a small pocket within...
Outcry over White House Assad-Hitler gaffe Americas

Outcry over White House Assad-Hitler gaffe

April 12th, 2017 White House spokesman Sean Spicer triggered an uproar on social media on Tuesday by saying Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons, which critics said overlooked the fact that millions of Jews were killed in Nazi gas chambers. Spicer made the comments at a daily news briefing, during a discussion about the April 4 chemical weapons...
The vanishing civilians of Aleppo Opinion

The vanishing civilians of Aleppo

December 11th, 2016 Did it cross your mind occasionally, in the past week, to wonder where all of the “250,000 civilians trapped in eastern Aleppo” have gone? As the area of the city under rebel control dwindled – by Wednesday morning the Syrian regime’s troops had recaptured three-quarters of it – did you see massive columns of fleeing...
Turkish foreign minister calls for immediate ceasefire in Syria Turkey

Turkish foreign minister calls for immediate ceasefire in Syria

December 2nd, 2016 Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called for an immediate ceasefire in Syria on Friday, describing the situation in Aleppo as critical and saying that President Bashar al-Assad was unfit to rule. Asked about Assad at a news conference in Beirut, Cavusoglu said it was undeniable that the Syrian leader was responsible for...
US suspends Syria ceasefire talks with Russia, blames Moscow World

US suspends Syria ceasefire talks with Russia, blames Moscow

October 4th, 2016 The United States broke off talks with Russia on Monday on implementing a ceasefire agreement in Syria and accused Moscow of not living up to its commitments under the Sept 9 deal to halt fighting and ensure aid reached besieged communities. The confirmation that the US-Russian talks on Syria have collapsed suggests that there is...
Archbishop Chrysostomos meets Assad in Damascus Cyprus

Archbishop Chrysostomos meets Assad in Damascus

July 25th, 2016 Archbishop Chrysostomos and a Cypriot delegation was on Monday received by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. According to Syrian news agency SANA, talks during the meeting touched on the situation in Syria and the unique historical relations between the two countries and the importance of developing them in all...
Syria's Assad says Putin has not talked about political transition World

Syria's Assad says Putin has not talked about political transition

July 14th, 2016 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview broadcast on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has never talked to him about leaving power, despite pressure from Washington for Assad to step down. "They never said a single word regarding this," Assad told NBC News when asked whether Putin or Russian Foreign Minister...
Syria withholds aid to 900,000 people, risks new siege in Aleppo - UN World

Syria withholds aid to 900,000 people, risks new siege in Aleppo - UN

May 4th, 2016 Syria's government is refusing UN demands to deliver aid to 905,000 people including in Aleppo, the city at the centre of an eruption of fighting in the past two weeks, UN humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said on Wednesday. "We seem to be having new possible besieged areas on our watch, we are having hundreds of relief workers unable...
Syrian govt says Assad's future not up for discussion World

Syrian govt says Assad's future not up for discussion

April 19th, 2016 The Syrian government's chief negotiator said President Bashar al-Assad's future was not up for discussion at peace talks, underlining the bleak prospects for reviving UN-led negotiations postponed by the opposition. Bashar Ja'afari, speaking to Lebanese TV station al Mayadeen, also said his team was pushing for an expanded government...
Putin: Russia can make powerful Syria comeback within hours World

Putin: Russia can make powerful Syria comeback within hours

March 17th, 2016 By Denis Dyomkin and Dmitry Solovyov Vladimir Putin said Russia's military success in Syria had allowed him to order a partial draw down of forces, but stressed the Kremlin could scale up its presence again within hours and would continue to carry out air strikes there. Speaking in the Kremlin three days after he ordered Russian...
Damascus rules out talks on presidential vote (Updated) World

Damascus rules out talks on presidential vote (Updated)

March 12th, 2016 The Syrian government on Saturday ruled out any discussion of presidential elections at peace talks due to start next week, drawing accusations from the opposition that it was halting the talks before they started. Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem, speaking at a Damascus news conference, confirmed his government's participation in...
Assad tells Putin his government will help with Syria ceasefire World

Assad tells Putin his government will help with Syria ceasefire

February 24th, 2016 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that his government was ready to assist in implementing a ceasefire in Syria, the Kremlin and the Syrian presidency said. The United States and Russia announced plans on Monday for a cessation of hostilities in Syria, excluding Islamic State and Nusra...
Turkey has reached the end of its "capacity to absorb" refugees World

Turkey has reached the end of its "capacity to absorb" refugees

February 7th, 2016 Aid trucks and ambulances entered Syria from Turkey on Sunday to help tens of thousands of people who have fled an escalating government assault on Aleppo, as air strikes targeted villages on the road linking the city to the Turkish border. The country has reached the end of its "capacity to absorb" refugees but will continue to take...
Big powers struggle to agree UN resolution ahead of Syria talks World

Big powers struggle to agree UN resolution ahead of Syria talks

December 18th, 2015 By Michelle Nichols and John Irish The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council were struggling to agree on a draft resolution endorsing an international bid to end the five-year-old civil war in Syria ahead of ministerial talks taking place in New York on Friday. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations,...
Assad says British bombing in Syria will fail, ridicules PM Cameron World

Assad says British bombing in Syria will fail, ridicules PM Cameron

December 6th, 2015 British air strikes on Islamic State will fail to defeat the militant group, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper, mocking Prime Minister David Cameron's strategy in the region. British lawmakers approved the bombing of Islamic State targets in Syria on Thursday. Hours after that...
Syria's Assad says his enemies increasing support for insurgents World

Syria's Assad says his enemies increasing support for insurgents

November 29th, 2015 Syrian President Bashar al Assad told a senior Iranian official on Sunday that his adversaries have increased weapon supplies and financial support to insurgents since the start of a major offensive aided by his allies to regain lost territory. Assad was quoted by state media as telling Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran's...
Far too simplistic a regional strategy Guest Columnist

Far too simplistic a regional strategy

November 8th, 2015 By Peter Van Buren The United States unveiled a new strategy last week in its war against Islamic State. For the first time, American military advisors will be on the ground in Syria, existing advisors in Iraq will be moved closer to the front lines, and American special forces will be sent into direct combat in both...
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