Archive for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

Free Syrian Army fighters and civilians search for bodies under rubble after an air strike by a fighter jet loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo’s al-Marja district December 31, 2012.

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Syria is preparing for, what he calls, a sacred birth that will replace Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “We can see very clearly that God’s help is close.

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Christmas, it seems, came early for Western governments looking to strike a blow about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has moved some of his chemical weapons arsenal in the direction of Lebanon.

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The United States on Monday labeled former Lebanese government minister Michel Samaha, an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a terrorist and froze his assets, saying he had supported attempts by Damascus to incite violence in Lebanon.

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Some 4,000 Egyptian citizens have been evacuated from Syria due to the conflict raging there, according to Egypt’s Foreign Ministry.

The ministry added that only a small number of Egyptian citizens are left in Syria, and that they refuse to leave on their own.

Ali al-Ashry, assistant to the foreign minister for consular affairs and Egyptians abroad, said the Egyptian Embassy in Damascus has evacuated about 80 Egyptian citizens over the past few days, in addition to 11 Syrians who are wives, husbands or children of evacuated Egyptian nationals.

Evacuations have taken place with the cooperation of Syrian and Lebanese authorities. The Egyptian Embassy in Syria has helped Egyptians travel by land into Lebanon to Beirut-Rafiq Hariri International Airport, and Lebanese authorities have agreed to grant Egyptians transit visas.

Egypt withdrew its ambassador to Syria in February to protest the regime's attacks against civilians, after protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad erupted in March 2011.

Egypt has called for an end to the civil war in Syria and has demanded Assad step down.

Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm

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President Barack Obama granted U.S. recognition on Tuesday to a Syrian opposition coalition as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, a move aimed at ratcheting up pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to leave power.

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More than 40,000 people have been killed in 20 months of conflict between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and those fighting for his overthrow, a violence monitoring group said on Friday.

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Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and members of his regime largely ignored Canada’s much ballyhooed sanctions against them as violence and confusion swept the Arab country last year.

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Israel warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Friday to prevent his anti-insurgency sweeps from spilling over into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, saying it was prepared to defend itself.

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