A United Nations commission on rights abuses in the Syria conflict offered grim new details on Friday of the government's repression, including the uprooting of extended clans and villages forced to flee into neighboring countries by security forces bent on crushing armed resistance. The three-member commission, which released its first...
Regarding ''Self-inflicted wounds'' (March 22): The genocide being conducted by Bashar al-Assad is disgusting. There is only one ''right way'' to deal with this slaughterer. First, President Obama must call for an end to the attacks by Syrian Army forces and for Mr. Assad to step down. If there is no agreement from Mr. Assad to stop the attacks and...
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- The Syrian military's widening struggle against insurgents, even in places it had declared secure, again flared into deadly violence on Wednesday, as forces carried out a daylong bombardment in the city of Homs and deployed tanks and helicopters to rout rebels in clashes just outside the capital, antigovernment activists...
Bashar al-Assad (بشار الاسد) (født 11. september 1965) er Syriens præsident (siden juni 2000) og søn af den tidligere præsident Hafez al-Assad.
Han er alawit og formand for det regionale Ba'ath-parti.