Topic: Bashar Assad
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday reiterated its call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, despite an Arab League announcement that Damascus had accepted its plan aimed at ending a violent crackdown on protesters."Our position remains that President ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House repeated on Thursday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had lost his legitimacy to rule.President Barack Obama said earlier that Muammar Gaddafi's death showed that "the rule of an iron fist inevitably comes to an end."Asked whether ...
The Syrian opposition is becoming "more cohesive" and "more broadly representative" of the country as a whole, a US official said Friday.Mark Toner, the State Department's deputy spokesman, told CNN that a real opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was beginning to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States imposed new financial sanctions on Syria Wednesday and edged closer to issuing an explicit call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down.With international pressure intensifying on Assad over his brutal crackdown on protests, one U.S. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday it exploring ways to increase pressure on the Syrian government to end violence against civilians and placed the blame squarely on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad."Syria would be a better place without President Assad," ...
Although the Assad regime in Syria has long been a thorn in Washington's side, the Obama administration is not yet ready to throw its lot in with anti-government protesters there, analysts said.The unrest gripping Syria comes as President Barack Obama pursues a ...
US President Barack Obama should abandon his policy of engaging Syria and stand foursquare behind opposition to the government of President Bashar al-Assad, lawmakers urged Wednesday.Republican Senator John McCain and Independent Senator Joe Lieberman said Obama's effort to engage rather than shun ...
US makes new gesture in outreach effort to SyriaThe Obama administration is trying a new gesture in its effort to engage with Syria, telling the country's leaders it will lean toward granting their requests to import non-sensitive American equipment normally banned by ...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad urged the United States on to reach out to militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah as part of the search for Middle East peace, in an interview with French television.Speaking to France 3, Assad welcomed what he said was ...
US Senator John Kerry met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday, SANA news agency reported, as Washington reviews its policies toward countries the previous administration regarded as hostile.Kerry, who lost the 2004 presidential election to George W. Bush and now chairs the ...
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