Posts Tagged: Bashar al-Assad
Syria’s Assad Opens Instagram Account Featuring Fawning Photos of the Dictator Amidst Civil War
Amid all the bloodshed in his country, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad still found time to get in on the social media craze. Last week, as...
Report: Gulf States Implement More Thorough Hezbollah Sanctions Than EU
The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council has started implementing sanctions on the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah, the Saudi newspaper Al-Wattan reported Sunday, citing a "well-informed" source. Members...
Report: Obama Plans to Move Forward With Arming of Syrian Rebels
President Barack Obama plans to move forward with a plan to arm Syrian rebels, after concerns over the move raised by Congress were...
Lebanon President Suleiman Urges Lebanese to Stay Out of Syria Conflict
Lebanon President Michel Suleiman has urged Lebanese citizens to refrain from becoming involved in the raging Syrian civil war. "It is important to stop interfering in...
Syrian Officials: Israel Was Not Involved in Arms Depot Explosion
Syrian officials Sunday said that Israel was not involved in a blast that destroyed an arms depot in Latakia over the weekend, instead pointing the...
Report: CIA Begins Operations to Arm Syrian Rebels
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has commenced operations to help arm Syrian rebels battling the forces of that country's president, Bashar al-Assad, The Wall Street...
Saudi Foreign Minister: Syria is ‘Occupied Land’
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal criticized on Tuesday those countries supporting the embattled Syrian regime in its civil war against rebel groups, saying...
CNN: Palestinian Snipers Fight for Assad (VIDEO)
Ynet - Palestinian refugees serving in sniper units throughout Syria's capital Damascus are helping President Bashar Assad cling to power, three years after the eruption...
Lebanese President Urges Hezbollah to ‘Return to Lebanon’
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman on Thursday urged the terror organization Hezbollah to end their role in the Syrian civil war and "return to Lebanon,"...
Report: Hamas Weapons Stockpile Depleted as Iran, Hezbollah Punish Terror Group for Support of Syrian Rebels
Hamas is feeling the squeeze now that its relationship with Iran and Hezbollah has become frayed. Israel's Channel 2 reports that the organization's weapons stockpile...
Assad Warns Israel: Response to Strikes Will be ‘Strategic, Not Local’
JPost - Syria President Bashar Assad has issued a strong warning to Israel, threatening a fierce response should Israel strike targets in his ...
Jewish British MP Recounts Meetings With Assad: His Only Objective is Regime Survival
A British Jewish Member of Parliament recounted his trips to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad—and in one instance his wife—in a Daily Mail editorial...
UN Believes Both Sides in Syria War Have Used Chemical Weapons
Guardian - UN investigators say there are reasonable grounds to believe that limited quantities of toxic chemicals have been used in at least four...
Report: Syria Won’t Receive S-300 Shipment Until 2014 – If at All
Russia has not yet delivered the S-300 air defense missile system to the Syrian regime and may not do so until 2014, if at all,...
