Tag: Bashar Assad
Israel is still doing America’s dirty work in Syria
For some observers, this past weekend’s revelations about Israeli strikes against Iranian targets in Syria was just politics as usual in the Jewish state. Some pundits treated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s public acknowledgement...
US Syria envoy: America’s policy is not to oust Assad
Ousting Syrian President Bashar Assad is no longer a goal of the United States, said the U.S. envoy to Syria on Monday.
“We want to see a regime that is fundamentally different. It’s not regime...
Sens. Cotton, Cruz to introduce resolution recognizing Israeli sovereignty of Golan Heights
The outlet reported that the resolution states that “Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights is critical to Israel’s national security,” and that “Israel’s security from attack from Syria and Lebanon cannot be assured without Israeli sovereignty over...
US increases pressure on Iran, warns other players not to impede sanctions
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned nine targets last week related to an illicit oil network between Iran and Russia.
“We are acting against a complex scheme Iran and Russia have used to bolster the Assad regime...
Iran has spent $16 billion to destabilize Middle East, finds US State Department report
The U.S. State Department recently published an unprecedented report detailing the financial resources Iran invests in destabilizing the Middle East.
The report estimated that over the past six years, the Islamic republic has spent some...
Syrian civilians targeted by Assad, 20 children killed
At least 100 civilians, including 20 children, were killed in massive fighting in Syria’s rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, evidence of major escalations on the part of dictator Bashar Assad’s regime.
The area has been held by...
Conflicting interests in Syria create a dangerous complexity for Russia and Israel
At the Munich Security Conference over the weekend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the situation in Syria and said that “Mr. Assad understands that if he invites Iran in, then obviously, he...
Middle Israel: When Bashar Assad met General Franco
Bashar Assad has risen from the dead.
Confident, brazen and annoyingly soft-spoken, the man who two years ago was discounted as a dead man walking emerged Sunday in the Syrian Foreign Ministry where he wowed...