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… the crisis. Several human-rights groups have joined in the Damascus Declaration, calling for a negotiated departure of Bashar al-Assad and his entourage with the Syrian army acting as an interim government. Other groups, however, insist that the opposition is willing and able to...

… MAY 12, 2011 -- If you're a bit confused about U.S. President Barack Obama's passivity in the face of Syrian President Bashar al- Assad's brutal repression of domestic opposition, don't be. Syria isn't Libya. The Assad regime is just too consequential to risk undermining. Altho...

/ BARAK / 47 Whether the stories were true wouldn’t matter. They would still make the real bargaining necessary for peace far more difficult, perhaps even impossible. I also had doubts whether Assad was ready for real peace: embassies, open borders, personal contact between Syr...

November has been the bloodiest month since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began last spring.

dissatisfied with the cruel and authoritarian regime of Bashar al-Assad

Syrian President Bashar al Assad and Libyan

…inted that coming reforms will include greater freedom for the press and the right to form political parties. President Bashar al-Assad is due to address the country in the next 48 hours. His speech is eagerly awaited, but it remains to be seen whether it will be enough to defuse...

which shook the government of Bashar al-Assad’s father Hafez in 1982

Bashar al-Assad had little or nothing of the menacing pose of a traditional Arab dictator. His manner was modest and

a top aide to President Bashar al- Assad

…r or louder. As recently as May 6, Secretary of State Clinton was still talking about a “reform agenda” in Syria, as if Bashar al-Assad were a slightly misguided bureaucrat rather than the murderer of roughly 1,000 unarmed demonstrators. As for the president, though the White Hou...

…fighting in 2006. In a poll of Arab public opinion taken in 2008, the three most popular leaders were Hassan Nasrallah, Bashar al-Assad and Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, in that order. But this sense of inexorable ascendancy in which the Iran-led bloc liked to cloak itself has fallen vict...

…n Sheikhoun as a straightforward opportunity to register an absolute moral objection. The circumstance was unequivocal: Bashar al-Assad’s government, once again defying international law, had used chemical weapons. There was video documenting the attack and substantial agreement...

…eets in Syria. The protestors were demanding political reforms, dissatisfied with the cruel and authoritarian regime of Bashar al-Assad, who has been in power for more than ten years, succeeding his father after a 30-year rule. The government responded by opening fire. Within a f...

Zalikow. Arms assistance can be had elsewhere. More interesting is to supply things that we are uniquely able to supply (intel) and use that as leverage for post war Syria. Nuclear Iran is our primary objective. Look at all strategies in Syria through that prism. Perry: Going in...