 Business Standard "The fact of the matter is the terrible situation in Syria is the fault and responsibility of Bashar al-Assad. He has murdered tens of thousands of his own people. He has acted with impunity, like a tyrant, to hold onto power, and it is the rightful ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| President Obama's 'red line' for Syrian regime means nothing New York Daily News The credibility of the U.S. is ever more on the line with the astonishing revelation that President Obama engaged in unexpected improvisation in drawing a chemical weapons “red line” for Syria's BasharAssad. In a press conference last August, Obama ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Few options for Syria's Assad to strike back after Israeli raids Reuters Through four decades of official hostility with Israel, Assad and his father before him kept the Golan Heights frontier quiet. Were Assad to pull back troops, Israel is worried that the heights it captured fromSyria in 1967 could become a springboard ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Are Syria's rebels using chemical weapons? The Week Magazine he U.S. appears to be moving toward at least arming the anti-government forces in Syria trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad, and perhaps leading Western airstrikes on Syria. President Obama, long reluctant to directly involve the U.S. in Syria's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Syrian Expatriates Organization Decries Recent String of Massacres In City of ... DigitalJournal.com (press release) The Syrian Expatriates Organization (SEO) is extremely alarmed and dismayed by a recent string of brazen massacres targeting several villages in northwest Syria. The BBC reported that government troops backed by Assad's militiamen have been targeting ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Israel to Syria's Assad: Airstrikes not aimed at helping rebels NBCNews.com (blog) JERUSALEM - Israel sought to persuade Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday that its recent airstrikes around Damascus did not aim to weaken him in the face of a more than two-year-old rebellion. Officials say Israel is reluctant to take sides in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Israel to Assad: air strikes did not aim to help Syria rebels Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel sought to persuade Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday that recent air strikes around Damascus did not aim to weaken him in the face of a two-year rebellion, and played down the prospects of an escalation. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| US insists Assad, not rebels, likely behind chemical weapons use in Syria Globe and Mail The White House says it is highly likely that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, not the rebel opposition, was behind any chemical weapons use in Syria. White House spokesman Jay Carney says there is certainly evidence that chemical weapons have ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Pentagon Still Believes Assad Has Control of Syria's Chemical Arsenal Wired Little was echoing comments made Thursday by his boss, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, and the British defense chief that Assad still has control of the hundreds of metric tons of chemical weapons and their precursors in Syria. All that was occasioned ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Israeli raids in Syria highlight Arab conundrum Salt Lake Tribune Cairo • Five weeks ago, the head of the Arab League capped a summit in Qatar with an impassioned appeal to strengthen the rebel fighters trying to bring down Syrian President Bashar Assad. On Sunday, he denounced Israeli's airstrike into Assad's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Syrian Observatory: 42 soldiers killed in Israel strike Jerusalem Post Earlier Monday, a high-ranking Syrian military source was quoted by the New York Times as saying that dozens of elite Republican Guard troops stationed by Syrian President Bashar Assad's palace in Damascus were killed in the strike. The paper also ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Israeli airstrikes prompt threats, anger in Syria - Journal Star Lincoln Journal Star Despite new concerns about a regional war, Israeli officials signaled they will keep trying to block what they see as an effort by Iran to send sophisticated weapons to Lebanon's Hezbollah militia ahead of a possible collapse of Syrian President Bashar ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Message to Assad Jerusalem Post The Assad regime is now seeking to exploit the raids to tie the rebels to “the Zionist entity.” The regime may succeed in tricking Arabs in the region into believing that Syrian opposition forces are receiving Israeli support and thus delegitimize the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Israel's Target in Syria Was Hezbollah, Not Assad the Diplomat (blog) At first glance, the two series of Israeli air strikes inside Syria on Friday and Sunday may suggest that Israel is no longer reluctant to take sides in Syria's two-year-old civil war. But the likelihood that Jerusalem would seek to precipitate the by ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| REFILE-Israel to Assad: air strikes did not aim to help Syria rebels TrustLaw (blog) JERUSALEM, May 6 (Reuters) - Israel sought to persuade Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday that its recent air strikes around Damascus did not aim to weaken him in the face of a more than two-year-old rebellion. Officials say Israel is reluctant ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Syria: civil war turns regional crisis The Guardian Iran reacted to the airstrikes on Sunday by saying it would do more than just arm Assad. Iran's ground forces commander, General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, said it would support Syria's army with assistance in training, although he denied Iran would have ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| White House: Assad likely used chemical arms The Border Mail Washington: The White House asserted Monday that it's highly likely that Syrian President BasharAssad's regime, not the rebel opposition, was behind any chemical weapons use in Syria. Responding to weekend airstrikes in Syria, the White House also ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UN strongly suspects Syrian rebels used sarin gas Jerusalem Post Click for full JPost coverage. Syrian President Assad's government and the rebels accuse each another of carrying out three chemical weapon attacks, one near Aleppo and another near Damascus, both in March, and another in Homs in December. The civil ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Israel's sights set on Hezbollah – not Assad NBCNews.com (blog) Is Israel walking a tightrope that will lead inevitably to a sudden clash with Syria? Israel takes comfort in its intelligence assessment that President Bashar al-Assad would rather absorb the blows and the humiliation than confront Israel. The ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Choose your enemy: Assad or Israel? Al-Arabiya Abdulrahman al-Rashed. Throughout the years, Iran, (former president) Hafez al-Assad and Bashar al-Assad have sought to hijack the Palestinian cause in order to dominate Syria, occupy Lebanon and serve Iranian interests. Other groups also did the same ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| US horrified by reports of Syria massacre Indian Express "As Bashar al-Assad (the Syrian President) continues to cling to power, we will not lose sight of the men, women and children who are being killed by his regime," he said in response to a question. Tags: Syriamassacre · US · Barack Obama · Bashar al ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Five strategies for the US in Syria Jakarta Post In the western media's telling, the civil war in Syria began and continues as a morality play, good versus evil and for good reason. The regime headed for nearly a decade and a half by Bashar al-Assad has pursued policies of extreme brutality ... See all stories on this topic » |
| White House Says Ignore Facts, Assad "Likely" Behind Syrian ... By Tyler Durden When it comes to the deep hole of lies and inconsistencies that US foreign policy is vis-a-vis Syria, it has two options: stop digging or double down. Following the earlier report by the UN that outright rejected the full blown White House ... |
| Uber-Neocons: The Main Architects of Post-Assad Syria at Work ... By aletho With the approaching Finale for Syria's Assad the Uber-Neocon architects of US foreign policy have been hard at work. Assuming (albeit knowingly) the certainty of the soon-to-come end for Assad's government, the neocon architects are ... Aletho News |
| Syrian Rebels Accused of Using Sarin Gas | Taylor MarshTaylor Marsh By Taylor Marsh WHATEVER “bind” President Obama was wrongly judged to be in over his “red line” comments on chemical weapons has quickly subsided with the news about the Syrian rebels. U.N. inspectors revealing that anti-Assad rebels may have used ... Taylor Marsh |
| Turkish PM blasts 'butcher' Assad in scathing speech on Syria | The ... By Agence France-Presse Fox News host blames mass shootings on 'liberal Hollywood's violent video games' ... AFP – Turkey's prime minister on Sunday delivered his most virulent attack so far on Bashar al-Assad, calling the Syrianpresident a “butcher” and warning that he will be held to account for the deaths of tens of thousands of his citizens. “If God permits, we will see this butcher, this murderer receive his judgement in this world … and we will praise (God) for it,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. “You will pay ... The Raw Story |
| 'concrete suspicions' that Syrian rebels used chemical weapons - RT By RT The new report now makes the long-standing accusations of the use of chemical weapons by SyrianPresident Bashar Assad look weaker: "This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities," Del Ponte ... News RSS : Today |
| Syria's Assad makes rare public appearance - CBS News President shown on state TV touring a Damascus power station amid increasing attacks on capital city, his seat of power. www.cbsnews.com/.../syrias-assad-makes-rare-public-appearan... |
| Britain set to end arms embargo on Syrian rebels as Assad - Daily Mail The British Government has not decided whether to lift a European arms embargo when it expires at the end of May. www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Britain-set-end-arms-embargo-Syrian-... |
| Bashar Assad's forces reportedly take key Syria township - latimes ... Bashar Assad's forces reportedly take key Syria township of Otaiba. feeds.latimes.com/.../la-fg-syria-town-20130426,0,4619825.st... |
| Social Media Buzz: Mourning Assad's Foreign Fighters | Syria News Millions of Syrians are using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype to disseminate and discuss the conflict. Each week Syria Deeply ... www.syriadeeply.org/?p=6517 |
| Syria's Assad in rare visit as rockets hit capital | www.ktvu.com Syrian President Bashar Assad made a rare public appearance at a Damascus power station on Wednesday, while two bombs exploded near the city center, ... www.ktvu.com/news/news/syrias-assad-rare-visit.../nXdZJ/ |
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