In an interview with The Sunday Times, Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, warns that bombing will increase the risk of terrorist attacks by sleeper cells in Europe unless there is a concerted effort to destroy ISIS on the ground. The following is the full text of the interview, as published by SANA.
President Assad says terrorists are flocking from over 100 countries around the world to Syria, in an effort to transform the country into a hub for terrorism
Paris puts military cooperation against ISIS in the framework of a political solution, while Moscow pushes for a map of non-European-backed militant groups
Foreign ministers condemn Turkey for the recent downing of a Russian jet and Ankara’s support for terrorism
Syrian health officials order the removal of over 200 products from local markets
Opposition leader denounces Russian attacks on Syrian civilians, while calling on Al-Qaeda’s Syrian wing to sever its alliance with the radical Islamist group
President Assad told the French Magazine Valeurs Actuelles Thursday that you cannot fight terrorism while you follow or pursue the wrong policies that support terrorism directly or indirectly. Following is the full text of the interview, as published by SANA.
Around 15 rebel factions merge with rebel alliance after SDF forces seize al-Hol in the eastern countryside of Hassakeh last week
“Daraya has been under siege and intensive shelling for over three years. More than 3,000 barrel bombs have been dropped on the city, and recently it has been escalating.”
Accounting for more than 25 percent of Greater Syria’s population at the beginning of last century, Christians are now believed to number no more than 5 percent of Syria’s current population
Delegation of Syrian émigrés from a dozen nations land in Beirut ahead of trip to Syria
Russian deputy FM says Moscow in regular contact with opposition parties as foreign powers meet in the Austrian capital to discuss a political solution to the Syrian crisis
Western countries, including France, continue to support and provide political cover to terrorists, Syrian president tells visiting French MPs
Right-wing French MP says cooperation with Syrian president essential to fighting terrorism and restoring stability to the region
French NGO forces Syrian asylum seeker to vacate shared housing facility after promising accommodation
But does this almost Hollywood-style Russian intervention have an American director?
Syria’s Assad gave an interview to the Iranian Khabar TV channel. The following is the full text of the interview, as published by SANA
Western nations have recently softened their rhetoric toward Assad in apparent acceptance of the president’s mandate to serve during a transitional period
UN and Damascus not informed about French airstrikes in Syria prior to operation, Russian news agency reports
Relatives verify reports of award winning cartoonist’s death under torture by regime forces following his arrest in 2013
