“American administrations are famous for creating problems, but they never solve any,” Assad told the Australian SBS TV channel. The following is the full text of the interview, as published by SANA.
Militias increasingly devoting themselves to the interests of Moscow and Tehran often at the expense of the Assad regime in the central province
Russia feels that the search for options for a political settlement in Syria must be accelerated because it is stuck between diverging military and political priorities with Tehran and Damascus
Air strikes kill dozens of people in eastern Syria as regime and allied forces make short-lived gains against ISIS in Raqqa province
The experience of people in the modern age has proven that a unilateral ideology that claims to possess an absolute truth able to solve all its society’s problems fails miserably in achieving a stronger, more coherent or more secure nation
Was the aim of the Russian defense minister’s visit to Syria an act of contempt against Assad in an attempt to portray him as being obedient to Russian orders?
Coalition’s political committee member says increasing flow of refugees part of regime plan to bring about demographic change in Syria through systematic displacement
One must keep in mind that on the July 7-8 a NATO meeting will be held in Warsaw
Opposition figure says conflict will intensify as the regime and its allies aim to impose a military solution on the crisis as hopes for successful negotiations fade
Unconfirmed reports of the death of Islamic State Caliph send social media sites into a frenzy as intelligence officials downplay likelihood of leader’s killing
Aleppo remains the most destroyed and devastated, representing 58% of the ruined surfaces in Syria due to the regime’s heavy bombing, with explosive barrels and Russian missiles
President Bashar al-Assad said the Syrian people surprised the world once again with their unprecedented participation in the country’s parliamentary elections. This speech is republished as it appeared in SANA, the Syrian official news agency
The Quds Force is a Special Forces unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards responsible for their extraterritorial operations
In statement to UN chief, top opposition figure says that the regime and its allies have commenced a campaign against civilians in liberated Aleppo and Idleb
Head of the opposition’s High Negotiations Committee delegation in Geneva speaks to Zaman al-Wasl about why he will not support an upcoming round of talks with Damascus
Have the Islamic State’s attacks on regime-held areas on Syria’s coast signaled the start of a new battlefront, or a sinister plan to regain the confidence of Assad’s disillusioned loyalists?
American policies in the strategic sense are not governed by ethical rules or attractive political speech, but by what are called strategic interests, American national security and the tendency toward hegemonism
Documents obtained by Zaman al-Wasl show many of ISIS’ members joined the hardline group soon after being released from prison
Raqqa has become the world capital of horror after it transformed into a camp where terrorists from different countries and nationalities gathered, forming a terrorist army
Mustafa Badreddine was not Abu Musab al-Zarqawi or Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. However, he was more dangerous
