Tag: Bashar al-Assad
Nine Arab countries want to weigh in for a resolution of the Syrian crisis
Will Syria return to the Arab League? More and more countries in the region are moving in this direction, but reluctance remains. This Friday, Saudi Arabia had convened a meeting…
Three senior Syrian officials will be tried in France for crimes against humanity
This is a first: three senior officials of the Syrian regime of Bashar el-Assad will be tried in France, we learned on Tuesday, April 4. They will appear before an…
Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad visits Moscow to discuss Turkish-Syrian reconciliation
Russian President Vladimir Putin received Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in Moscow on Wednesday March 16, at a time when the Kremlin is stepping up its efforts to reconcile Turkey and…
unprecedented visit by the head of the WHO to the northeast of the country
This is a consequence of the double deadly earthquake last month: the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, visited this Wednesday, March 1 in northwestern Syria. In…
President Assad shows up at the bedside of victims in Aleppo
International aid is beginning to flow into Turkey, towards Syrian rebel areas from Turkey, and towards Damascus, for areas under Syrian government control. It was in one of them that…
international aid arrives in Turkey, but what to do in Syria?
The toll continues to grow in Turkey and Syria after the terrible earthquake. The latest still provisional assessment announced Tuesday evening reported more than 7,800 dead (5,894 in Turkey and…
Meeting between Turkish and Syrian Defense Ministers in Moscow, a first since 2011
This is a milestone in the Turkish-Syrian rapprochement that Russia has been promoting covertly for several years, and that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been publicly calling for since…
five pro-regime fighters killed in IS attack in Hama province
Five pro-regime fighters were killed on Thursday (December 15th) in an attack by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria’s central Hama province. This report brings to 21 the number…
The Turkish army continues its bombardments against positions in Syria
The Turkish army continued Thursday, November 24 its air raids and artillery fire against localities and military positions of Kurdish forces and the regular Syrian army in Syria. Since Sunday,…
In Syria, the city of Tafas under regime bombs
The town of Tafas, in southern Syria, is facing bombardments carried out by the army. Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad’s regime launched the offensive at the end of July, and…