Syrians trying to topple the regime of Bashar Assad say they are sick of the Obama administration’s unfulfilled promises of help and don’t agree with the president that the dictatorship will be toppled without weapons from the United States.
Tags: Obama Administration, Bashar AssadBEIRUT: Long before the outbreak of Syria’s uprising in March 2011, the country’s writers had begun to search into their recent past, hoping to find clues as to where Bashar Assad’s rule might lead by studying his father’s years in power.
Tags: Bashar AssadBashar Assad’s comments came as an opposition group, the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syria, accused the regime of being behind the disappearance of two of its leaders.
Tags: National Coordination Body for Democratic Change, Bashar AssadIn the foreign halls of power, the strategy is clear: Syria’s opposition should unite to present an alternative to Bashar Assad’s rule – a step France’s president says would lead to diplomatic recognition.
Tags: diplomatic recognition, Syrian opposition, Bashar AssadSyria’s prime minister who defected to the opposition said Tuesday that Bashar Assad’s regime was near collapse and urged other political and military leaders to tip the scales and join the rebel side.
Tags: Bashar Assad, military leaders, Syrian regimeThe crumbling regime of Syrian strongman Bashar Assad controls one of the largest chemical weapons programs on earth, including mustard gas, sarin and VX nerve agent.
Tags: chemical weapons, Bashar Assad, VX nerve agentSyrian dictator Bashar Assad fled Damascus last week after three senior officials were killed by a suicide bomber.
Tags: Bashar AssadRebel fighters in Aleppo, Syria’s commercial capital, are preparing to make a stand against the military of dictator Bashar Assad, whose tanks and soldiers have been gathering for days outside the city.
Tags: rebel fighters, commercial capital, Bashar AssadAfter spending seven years in jail for challenging Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and surviving a travel ban of more than a decade, one of the country’s most respected political dissidents has left Damascus and taken up an active leadership role in the fractious resistance movement.
Tags: Bashar Assad, travel banAnti-regime activists in Syria said Friday that government gunners rained shells on a poor, farming village before armed thugs moved in, leaving scores of people dead in what rebels claim could be one of the worst single days of bloodshed in the uprising against Bashar Assad’s regime.
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