Indeed, fashioning a working arrangement between Assad and the moderate Sunnis should be a joint Russo-American initiative. |
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Their success will partly depend on the hidden agenda of Syria's foxy president, Hafez Assad. |
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There is increasing evidence that Assad is working with ISIS to squash the Free Syrian Army. |
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The appeasement of Assad, like other appeasements in history, will cause more nightmares. |
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Mr Assad sent in the air force to bomb the rebels into oblivion, heedless of the tens of thousands of civilians he killed in the process. |
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Many Syrian rebels remain furious with what they view as a cynical U.S. decision to intervene in Syria against ISIS but not Assad. |
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But they are far from constituting a group that could take power if Mr Assad should fall. |
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President Assad appears to be too weak to overturn the autocratic, nepotistic and back-scratching regime which permeates the political system. |
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Turkey has publicly called for a no-fly zone and for airstrikes against the Assad regime. |
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Syrians, still dying by the hundreds each day, wonder what insurance policy gave Bashar Assad freedom from a no-fly zone. |
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When Mr. Hariri came back from his meeting with President Assad, I met him at Walid Jumblat's house. |
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What if the Assad regime can be toppled only by Islamists driven by sectarian hate rather than dreams of Jeffersonian democracy? |
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Iraq's Shia-led government, which used to fear the prospect of a Sunni regime displacing Mr Assad and his Alawites, has become chillier. |
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Inside ISIS-held areas, the Assad regime is quietly working to revitalize long-existing intelligence networks to fight ISIS there. |
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Without Assad in Damascus — the critical link in the Iranian supply line — Hezbollah could be doomed. |
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Instead, calling Bashir Assad more and nastier names will do the trick, it seems. |
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His mother was said to favour Maher rather than Bashar for the presidency but was overruled by her husband, former president Hafez Assad. |
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President Assad has appointed a new Syrian ambassador to Iraq, replacing Nawaf al-Fares, who defected in July. |
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Iran is sending arms to Assad because they know his downfall would be a strategic defeat for them. |
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Throughout the rest of the year, and into early 2010, relations between Maliki and Assad remained toxic. |
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As for Muhammad Abdullah Salah al Assad, he was arrested in December 2003 in Tanzania and detained incommunicado in different places. |
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President Assad would like to have the Golan back before he dies, and his health has been in question for some time. |
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Assad hoped to gauge awareness and use of various hedging methods among small and medium firms that import or export. |
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Assad the alawite will not go until the balance of power is decisively against him. |
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Ali Farah and Assad Ibrahim have both embraced democracy and are registered Democrats. |
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The alliance between America and rebel forces has been strained by the U.S. refusal to directly attack the Assad regime. |
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News stories like this one at Vox expressed the consensus view that we were now allying with Assad. |
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Soon after he was seen stumping for the Assad regime in his ancestor's conflagrated homeland. |
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There were a lot of folks begging us to confront the Assad regime or at least create a no fly zone and stop the barrel bombs. |
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They have been battling ISIS for a year and fighting the Assad regime for over three years. |
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Meantime, Syrians still drown in bloodletting, chaos, and refugees, while the Assad side weakens only by endless inches. |
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Iran and Hezbollah, both Shiite, see Assad as a bulwark against Sunni influence. |
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Assad has been offered safe passage to a third country as a carrot for handing over power. |
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Still, Samore added that on two occasions the Russians had discreetly warned Assad about using the weapons. |
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But for all the advantages Assad has handed to them, they cannot dislodge his second-string units from the city. |
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Ford emphasized that dissension and anger at the Assad family is reaching a tipping point among the Alawi. |
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But he also signaled that he viewed the Annan plan as an exit strategy for Assad, not a way for him to remain in power. |
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Cooperating with Assad is also the only feasible way, at present, to lessen the humanitarian nightmare in Syria. |
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Within Aleppo, the Assad regime controls the balance of power, but its public support is flagging. |
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They have been slaughtered in their schools and gassed in their cradles by the Assad regime. |
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Admittedly, the rationale for the Gulf War was stronger than the motivation for lobbing missiles at the Assad regime. |
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Nor is it clear that the Assad regime is in a position to be confident of its staying power. |
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Surely it was intentional and perpetrated by Assad or ISIS or a still-unrecognized radical group. |
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Assad has been accused of knowingly leaving room for ISIS to grow, the better to weaken the less radical rebels. |
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In effect, the American government has been in a limited partnership with the Assad regime for almost a year. |
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That leeway could make it harder for Assad to respond to localized protests, and allow them to spread. |
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If Assad falls and a new government is formed by Sunni rebel forces, Iran loses a keystone in its regional power structure. |
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But Assad loyalist strongholds and natural advantages in the surrounding mountains, can they take it? |
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Committee Chairman Ed Royce called for a tribunal to be established to hold the Assad regime accountable for war crimes. |
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Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles are helping Bashar Assad hold on to power. |
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If you're Assad, what impulse on earth makes you want to go to the negotiating table? |
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And even now that ISIS has retreated from the area, it is still subject to periodic attacks from the Assad regime. |
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The Assad regime in Syria has carried out a horrifying crime, killing 1,400 noncombatants with poison gas. |
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So it seemed surprising a few weeks ago when Mr. Assad granted another Westerner a face-to-face chat on camera. |
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But they would doubtless like to see Assad cut down to size as a regional actor. |
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This appears to be in line with the Iranian press ignoring Morsi's criticism of Assad. |
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He is a true advocate for human rights who has paid a horrible price for standing up against the Assad dictatorship. |
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The world should stand in solidarity with him and the many other victims of the Assad regime. |
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Finally, Assad was back in the diplomatic arena, strengthened by his beau geste. |
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Your queer submissiveness allowed Assad to kill fathers like Fadi Haddad in order to ignite a civil war. |
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During his government which started in 1971, Assad ruled the country with an iron hand and did not allow any opposing works. |
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But fear is forcing thousands to vote for Assad whose tender mercies are well known. |
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Even diehard backers of the regime, who wave flags and posters exalting Mr Assad at street rallies, now talk of reform. |
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American airpower may not extend to Syria for some time, instead continuing to focus on IS in Iraq. There is other bad news for Mr Assad. |
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For the good of Syria and the region, therefore, the aim must be both to dethrone Mr Assad and also to minimise the loss of life. |
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And despite years of speculation, nobody has proved Assad has any germ warfare capability at all. |
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Assad reacts violently by giving the order to besiege the city and to bombard it with heavy artillery. |
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Small wonder the beleaguered Assad regime, well versed in obfuscation and diplomatic delay, welcomed the prospect with barely disguised glee. |
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The predominantly Sunni-based Arab League has been at the forefront of rhetoric against Assad and the galvanization of the resistance in Syria. |
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Mr Johnson is the first senior Tory to break ranks with the PM's line that the UK cannot join Assad due to his human rights record. |
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The European Council particularly welcomes the courageous decision of President Assad and Prime Minister Barak to resume negotiations on the Syrian track in Washington in mid-December. |
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There was a pretense that the Taliban, Saddam, Gaddafi, or Assad were demonically evil and without any true supporters. |
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Assad continued his autocratic government since the beginning of seventies by prohibiting adversary actions and even making attempts on adversary's lives who had fleed the country. |
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Assad has also reinforced his ranks with paramilitary groups. |
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By fragmentizing Syria, US strategists seek to destroy it as a functioning nation-state ruled by the Assad government. |
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Now, however, he and the two Western governments that have come closest to tackling Mr Assad head on, France's and Britain's, may be badgered into thinking again. |
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Time is running out for Bashar Assad The German problem A small reason to be cheerful ReprintsTo be fair to Rahul, the Gandhi clan has often produced slow starters. |
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And he has highlighted the horrors of ISIS to the West, as the spectre of what may come next were he to fall. Two ogres versus a bunch of thugsMr Maliki has been less brutal but more crass than Mr Assad. |
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Assad is not Brezhnev, and frankly, the stakes are not nearly as great. |
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Putin runs a kleptocratic security state, destabilizes his European neighbors, suppresses free expression at home, and has used his power to keep Assad in power. |
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Turkey, vaunting itself as a rising power, has the most clout: as one of Syria's main trading partners it should be pressing Mr Assad harder to call off the tanks and give his people a proper electoral choice. |
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Southern grumps Closer to the capital Kick out racism Reprints Related topics Bashar Assad Syria DamascusA year ago many believed that once the war had reached the centre of Damascus, the conflict would soon end. |
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Given the depravity Mr Assad has displayed and given the moral outrage of using chemical weapons to kill innocents, there is a strong Kantian case for permitting the expected military intervention. |
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Politics is the art of the possible, not tricky-dick Nixon necrosis, Assad asininity, Gaddafi grave grovelling or Saddam spite. |
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Evaporation from Lake Assad, a huge reservoir smack in the middle of the Syrian desert, creates a palpable clamminess on otherwise dry summer days. |
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Plastered with happy pictures of President Assad, tanks are still stationed watchfully on a grassy patch not far from the district. On May 18th many of Homs's people observed a general strike. |
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The ministry said the request was made Tuesday to Assad Kotaite, chairman of the ICAO executive board, at the ICAO headquarters in Montreal. |
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In 1982, Assad pere massacred 20,000 of his own people in Hama. |
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Scores of other unruly towns and cities have been punished, too. The brutal government offensive has encouraged President Bashar Assad to proffer the latest in a series of belated carrots. |
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Once he became chief of state, Assad decided to establish the bases for institutional stability through a constitution and an assembly of the people. |
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Whereas Mr Putin has stood firmly by Mr Assad, even while 100,000 people have perished, the West has proved an inconstant friend to the opposition. |
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Last August, when Syria's president, Bashar Assad, was caught red-handed gassing his own people in their hundreds, the Saudis saw a golden opportunity to strike hard. |
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Yet we still haven't heard from our political leaders about how they think letting Assad get away with what he is doing will contribute to any decent outcome, or to prevent more terrorist acts taking place in Europe. |
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Mr. Assad, where is your office currently located? |
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A meeting took place between President Bashar Assad and late Prime Minister Rafik Al-Hariri in Damascus on 26 August 2004 within the framework of the ongoing political consultation between the Syrian and Lebanese leaders. |
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Lebanon managed, just, to maintain a pretence of aloofness from that imbroglio, despite a bitter polarisation among the Lebanese between supporters and foes of the beleaguered regime of Syria's Bashar Assad. |
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The conflict could outlast Assad, however and whenever he falls. |
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The internal political situation did not present major changes in 1999 with President Assad, in power since 1971, re-elected for the fifth time on 10 February. |
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Still, being named as an acceptable alternative by Turkey was not likely to endear him to Assad or the senior figures in the military and security establishment who surround the president, Syrian and foreign observers said. |
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The assumption is that Bashar Assad sat in Damascus spiriting away all this sodium fluoride to build more chemical weapons. |
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With each shipment, Assad suggests, he might arrange with the bank for a currency forward, essentially locking in the terms to buy sterling at a later date. |
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Iran's massive commitment of money, men and materiel to bolster Bashar Assad in Syria has meanwhile outweighed Saudi Arabia's hesitant backing for bickering rebel groups. |
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It contrasts Prime Minister Barak's personal peace efforts and the distant attitude, even physical absence, of the strong man of Damascus, President Assad, at the negotiations in the United States. |
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Anyhow, they realized, Assad had also lost his legitimacy as a ruler. |
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In tribal areas, such legitimacy cannot be gained while Assad in power. |
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Against that background, I emphasized the importance of preventing illegal movement of arms into Lebanon in my recent talks with President Assad in Damascus. |
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But the violence in Syria has only got worse, and there are continuing concerns that the Assad regime has continued to conceal its stockpile of chemical weapons. |
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Iran has extended unwavering support for Bashar al-Assad's regime, while Turkey backed Syrian opposition forces and called for Assad to be removed from power. |
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Wa'el al Assad, the Director of the newly formed Department for Disarmament of the League of Arab States at Cairo, worked at UNIDIR in June and July. |
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The US Treasury charged that Pangates, a company registered to him, supplied the Assad government with a thousand tonnes of aviation fuel. |
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Antakya has become a nerve center for the uprising against Assad. |
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Syrian rebels fighting to overturn the regime of President Bashar Al Assad have used the nerve gas sarin, according to UN investigators. |
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Yet Paul has consistently entertained the notion of teaming up with Assad. |
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Assad was mobbed by supporters as he tried to leave the room. |
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Iran has concluded that if Assad is defeated and driven from power, Syria's majority Sunni community will purge the country of Shias and impose a Salafist state. |
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With all sides viewing these as a decisive escalation to end the Syrian war in a way that preserves Assad rule, they have responded with maximalism of their own. |
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There were two motorcades, one containing Assad and a decoy. |
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Assad died on June 10, 2000, however, a small elite around key Alawite intelligence and military officers took over power in a quiet Baathist coup. |
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The blasts sent a massive ball of fire and a black mushroom cloud into the sky and caused widespread damage and panic among residents, many of whom are supporters of Assad. |
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