Bashar Al Assad

US criticizes Arab League readmission of Assad's Syria, says it won’t follow suit

The Arab League voted Sunday to welcome back Syria, effectively concluding that Assad had won the war that has killed half a million people and displaced half the pre-war population since 2011.

Arab diplomats in Riyadh call for 'leadership role' in solution to Syria crisis

Following discussions aimed at easing Damascus' isolation, diplomats gathered in Saudi Arabia on Saturday and decided that the Arab community must take the lead in efforts to mediate a settlement to the Syrian war.

Syria's return to Arab League is 'speculation', says Qatar PM

Syria was suspended from the Arab League in 2011 after president Bashar al-Assad ordered a brutal crackdown on a pro-democracy uprising

Iran hiding weapons, military equipment inside earthquake relief material to Syria

Western intelligence source said Iranian flights started entering Syria since the earthquake on February 6. "We believe that Iranian militias have transferred huge quantities of ammunition, they have restocked quantities lost in prior Israeli drone strikes,"

Syria, Turkey, Iran, Russia to hold summit in Moscow

Encouraged by President Bashar al-Assad's ally Russia, Syrian and Turkish officials held meetings last year, in a move towards normalising ties between states on opposing sides of Syria's 12-year-long conflict

How China-brokered Saudi-Iran deal is good news for India — and the world

India’s relations in West Asia have their own independent standing. Clearly peace and stability in the region should be win-win for all, including India

US renews opposition to Bashar al-Assad normalisation after UAE trip

The United States under domestic law rules out any assistance for reconstruction in Assad-ruled Syria without accountability for abuses

US, Europe demand President Assad to be held accountable for Syrian uprising

Some 500,000 Syrian civilians have been killed since the uprising, and amid widespread suffering and the displacement of millions, another 10,000 died in the massive earthquakes that struck in early February

Putin to hold talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Moscow

In a statement, it said that the Syrian president had been greeted on arrival by Putin's special representative Mikhail Bogdanov and the Russian ambassador to Damascus Alexander Yefimov

Rescue phase after Turkey-Syria earthquake 'coming to a close', says UN aid chief

UN aid chief Martin Griffiths, during a visit to Syria, said that urgency now will switch to shelter, food, schooling and psychosocial care