Syrian President Bashar Assad has vowed to defeat the jihadists currently rampaging through the north of his country, “no matter how intense their terrorist attacks are.” His comments came as the Syrian Army geared up to defend the city of Hama from the attackers. In a phone call with Emirati President …
Read More »Assad explains why Syria is sticking with Russia
Syrian President Bashar Assad has told RT that Damascus is backing Russia’s military operation in Ukraine both out of loyalty and commitment to an “international equilibrium.” Assad, whose country has weathered sanctions and a US military intervention, has accused Washington of using the dollar to commit “robbery” on a global …
Read More »Assad makes first visit to Arab nation since Syria war began
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has stepped up an effort to thaw relations with Arab nations that opposed him during a war that devastated his country for 11 years, traveling to the United Arab Emirates for talks on improving ties with the oil-rich state. Assad met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin …
Read More »Bashar al-Assad is getting accepted by Arab leaders. US and Israel are losing an opportunity to engage him
A surprise visit to the Syrian capital on Tuesday by Abu Dhabi’s foreign minister sparked condemnation from the United States, which seeks to encourage its Arab State allies to steer clear of President Assad. According to State Department spokesperson Ned Price, the US urges “states in the region to carefully …
Read More »The so-called ‘cradle of the revolution’ against Assad has been liberated – the West’s campaign to topple him is all but over
Western media persists in portraying the emergence of extremist armed groups in Daraa, south of Damascus, as the “cradle of the revolution” to overthrow the Syrian government. The reality is that Daraa was the touchpaper lit by hardline Libyan mercenaries imported into the city prior to 2011. From Daraa, the …
Read More »The progressive civil war over Syria and Assad exposes an astonishing lack of intellectual curiosity by some on the American Left
Anyone following Aaron Maté (149K followers on Twitter); The Young Turks (TYT, with 440K followers as an institution, and as many followers each tracking the activity of co-hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian); the comedian Jimmy Dore (274K followers); or any number of other Twitter personalities whose online paths have …
Read More »EU pledges aid to an anti-Damascus region in the name of Syrian sovereignty but sanctions Assad government for being sovereign
Right after pledging a humanitarian-aid package of some 26 million euro on Wednesday to the Kurdish-controlled breakaway region of Northeastern Syria (NES), EU authorities on Thursday renewed punitive sanctions against the Syrian government of Bashar Assad. That same day, the Syrian leader won re-election as president in a landslide victory, …
Read More »Syrian President Bashar Assad wins re-election with 95.1% of votes
Turnout in Wednesday’s election was 78%, with Assad winning over 13 million votes, according to Hammouda Sabbagh, speaker of the Syrian legislature. Mahmoud Ahmad Marei, who previously served as secretary-general of the rebel coalition National Front for the Liberation of Syria, received some 470,276 votes, or 3.1%, while Abdullah Sallum …
Read More »Syrian President Assad and wife recover from coronavirus
“After the end of the quarantine period, symptoms of Covid-19 and negative PCR results, President Bashar al-Assad and Mrs. Asma al-Assad have resumed their work normally,” SANA news agency said on Tuesday. In a Twitter message, the Syrian Presidency confirmed the news, wishing all Syrians who have contracted the disease …
Read More »Trump says he wanted to ASSASSINATE Assad, blames ex-defense chief Mattis for staying his hand
“I would have rather taken [Assad] out,” Trump told Fox & Friends on Tuesday, insisting “I had him all set,” but “Mattis didn’t want to do it.” The admission flies in the face of Trump’s 2018 claim during a White House briefing that the suggestion of killing Assad was “never …
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