Showing posts with label Bashar Al-Assad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bashar Al-Assad. Show all posts
Monday, April 17, 2017
Former UK Ambassador to Syria: Assad Wasn't behind the Chemical Attack
Sunday, April 16, 2017
'It's Us or Them' Review of Secretary Tillerson's First Official Visit to Moscow
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Calls Grow to Fire Sean Spicer After He Says Hitler Didn't Use Chemical Weapons During Holocaust
Stephen Cohen: Will Syrian State Collapse & Fall into More Chaos If Assad Is Toppled?
'100% Fabrication': Assad on Accusations of Chemical Attack in Idlib
Assad Says Syria Chemical Attack Was Fabricated
Who Really Has the Chemical Weapons - the Syrian Government or UK/US de facto Backed Militants?
Assad Says Army 'Gave Up' All Chemical Weapons
Syria's Assad Denies Use of Chemical Weapons
Assad Says US 'Not Serious' About Fighting Terrorism
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Syria's Assad Says Chemical Attack Is Pure Fabrication
Can Russia Abandon Assad? – Inside Story
Rex Tillerson's visit to Moscow has done little to ease tensions. Tillerson met with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to discuss the future of the Syrian President. The US wants Assad gone. But Russia wants to know what America's real intentions are. And what the West is planning for a Syria without Assad?
Presenter: Sohail Rahman. Guests: Alexander Nekrassov, Russian political analyst and former Kremlin adviser; Wa'el Alzayat, former senior Syria adviser to Samantha Power, the US Ambassador to the United Nations under President Obama; Ian Black, visiting senior fellow at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics.
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Sean Spicer Under Fire as Backlash Grows
Sean Spicer Raises Outcry With Talk of Hitler, Assad and Poison Gas
During his daily briefing for reporters, Mr. Spicer was defending President Trump’s decision to order a missile strike on Syria by trying to lend gravity to the actions of Mr. Assad. American officials accuse the Syrian president of using sarin gas, a lethal chemical weapon, in an attack on a rebel-held area of Idlib Province last week that killed dozens, many of them children.
But in misconstruing the facts of the Holocaust — Nazi Germany’s brutally efficient, carefully orchestrated extermination of six million Jews and others — Mr. Spicer instead drew a torrent of criticism and added to the perception that the Trump White House lacks sensitivity and has a tenuous grasp of history. Read on and comment » | Nicholas Fandos and Mark Landler | Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
White House Accuses Russia of Cover-Up in Syria Chemical Attack
In a declassified four-page report that details United States intelligence on the chemical weapons attack and contains a point-by-point rebuttal of Moscow’s claims, the White House asserted that the Syrian and Russian governments had sought to confuse the world community about the assault through disinformation and “false narratives.”
The strongly worded document calls for international condemnation of Syria’s use of chemical weapons and harshly criticizes Russia for “shielding” an ally that has used weapons of mass destruction. Read on and comment » | Julie Hirschfeld Davis | Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Putin Shrugs Off Criticism of Syria Ties before Tillerson Visit
Vladimir Putin has shrugged off western criticism of his support for the Syrian regime, shortly after the top US diplomat said Bashar al-Assad’s days in power were numbered, ratcheting up tensions between the the US and Russia before talks in Moscow.
The US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, had hoped to underscore the US position with a unified message from the G7, which condemned the chemical attack at a summit in Italy on Tuesday. However, G7 foreign ministers were divided over possible next steps and refused to back a UK call for fresh sanctions.
Putin said western and Turkish accusations that Syria’s government dropped the nerve agent sarin that killed dozens of civilians in Idlib earlier this month were comparable with the now-discredited claim that Saddam Hussein’s had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. » | Emma Graham-Harrison and Heather Stewart | Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Syria’s Government ‘Coming to an End,’ Tillerson Warns Before Russia Trip
Mr. Tillerson, in comments made just before he traveled to Moscow for a high-stakes summit meeting, sought to clear up the United States’ position on Syria while also declaring that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia needed to choose whether to side with Mr. Assad or the West.
Russia can be a part of the discussions “and play an important role,” Mr. Tillerson said at a Group of 7 meeting in Lucca, Italy, or it “can maintain its alliance with this group, which we believe is not going to serve Russia’s interests longer term.” » | Gardiner Harris | Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Monday, April 10, 2017
Tillerson, on Eve of Russia Trip, Takes Hard Line on Syria
Mr. Tillerson’s comments, made in interviews aired on Sunday, were far more critical of the Russian government than any public statements by President Trump, who has been an increasingly lonely voice for better ties with Russia. They seemed to reflect Mr. Tillerson’s expectation, which he has expressed privately to aides and members of Congress, that the American relationship with Russia is already reverting to the norm: one of friction, distrust and mutual efforts to undermine each other’s reach. Read on and comment » | David E. Sanger | Sunday, April 9, 2017
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