Planeloads of Syrian Currency Exposed, but Does the Kremlin Care?Russia is literally sending planeloads of cash to help Syrianstrongman Bashar al-Assad prop up...By WeirFred
Today, President Putin is providing the same strategic shield to Bashar al-Assad. Bashar al-Assad has offered Russia a 49-year lease of the Tartus naval base and a free hand in its use of the Hmeimim air base. Today, Assad relies more heavily on Russia for the survival of the regime ...
Bashar Assad The Western-educated ophthalmologist initially raised hopes that he would be unlike his strongman father, Hafez, when he took power in 2000, including freeing political prisoners and allowing for a more open discourse. But when protests of his rule erupted in ...
Manaf Tlass, a Syrian general who was the first member of Assad's inner circle to break ranks and join the opposition, said "we are at a turning point and the train of the revolution will be victorious." Tlass, who defected in July, said he urged Assad to listen to the people's dem...
talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to try to bring Turkey into a consensus to prevent Syria from collapsing into wider turmoil. It's Blinken's 12th trip to the Mideast since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in Gaza last year but first since the oust...
President Bashar al-Assad was the main catalyst for reform in Syria’s economy and to a lesser degree in its political institutions before the 2011 uprising. The Civil War has caused Assad to return to his father’s domestic and regional policies. By Aiman Mansour* and Joshua Landis When ...
(CBS News) KILIS REFUGEE CAMP, Turkey - In Syria, President Bashar al-Assad made a rare appearance on television Tuesday. He hasn't been seen much lately, as he tries to hold his regime together and crush a popular uprising. Meanwhile, the civil war intensified throughout Syria. As many...
Carla del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss TV there were “strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof,” that rebels seeking to oust Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad had used the nerve agent. ...
She also explained how the Home Office had paused decisions on asylum claims from Syrians followingthe fall of Bashar Assad’s brutal regime. The UK, like many other countries, is waiting to see what sort of administration emerges after the lightning advance by rebels, led by Islamist groupHay...
During his first ten years in power, Bashar al-Assad permitted the rapid proliferation of mosques throughout the country. Fearing a repeat of this phenomenon, Syrian authorities are likely to insist on investments from secular countries such as Russia and China and from the regional adversaries of...