Bashar Al-Assad

20 May 2013

Syrian government forces have pushed deeper into a strategic opposition-held town near the Lebanese border in what both sides called one of the most intense ground battles of the two-year-old...

3:41AM

Obama, Erdogan insist Assad must go as part of any Syrian solution

18 May 2013

US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted that President Bashar al-Assad must step down amid a flurry of moves to organise peace talks to end Syria's...

1:32AM

Sunni Muslim exodus from Syria's Banias city amid fears of massacre

5 May 2013

The violence underscored the sectarian nature of the two-year conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and sent more than a million refugees to neighbouring countries.

6:56AM

Chemical weapons use in Syria would be ‘game changer’

27 Apr 2013

US President Barack Obama warned President Bashar al-Assad on Friday that any use of chemical weapons in Syria’s civil war would be a “game changer” but cautioned that intelligence assessments...

5:04AM

Syrian rebels demand more support from Western backers

22 Apr 2013

At a weekend meeting intended to smooth differences between the rebels and their backers, the Syrian National Coalition criticised its Western and Middle Eastern backers for failing to stop...

5:06AM

Syria’s Assad says West will pay for ‘supporting’ al-Qaeda

18 Apr 2013

President Bashar al-Assad warned on Wednesday the West that it will pay a heavy price for its alleged support of al-Qaeda in Syria and said his regime’s defeat is not an option.

3:51PM

Opinion

Hari Kumar

Workers pay the price for our bargains

5:20AM

Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

3:47AM

Syria air strikes kill 20 people including civilians, activists say

President Bashar al-Assad’s air force has been one of his biggest assets in the two-year-old civil war and he has used warplanes and helicopters to try to check rebel advances, although the regime...

10:30AM

Assad warns of instability after fall of regime

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned that the fall of his regime would destabilise the region “for many years”, as US President Barack Obama announced talks with Middle East allies over the...

4:07PM

West calls for UN inquiry into Syria chemical attack reports

Britain, France and the United States called on Wednesday for a United Nations inquiry into accusations by the Syrian government and the opposition of chemical weapons attacks.

8:19AM

SYRIA

Top Syrian general defects to rebel side

The defection of Brigadier General Mohammed Nour Ezzedeen Khallouf comes a day after the rebels' top military commander again called for members of the armed forces to join the uprising against...

4:03AM

WHO SAID IT?

Who said it?

Food is the only entertainment in Pakistan.

5:59AM

Britain seeks to arm Syrian terrorists, President Assad says

Britain has been pushing to lift a ban on the sale of arms to Syria's rebels, but at a meeting last month European Union foreign ministers ruled that only "non-lethal" aid and "technical...

5:27AM