The full text of the interview conducted by The Sunday Times with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.
Increasing trade between Syria and Iran vastly favors Tehran
Lavrov: I wish that the US would realize the need for doing everything to get the Geneva statement applied.
21 human rights groups in Syria have announce the establishment of the National Council for Human Rights in Syria, as a Syrian national rights-defending body
President Assad spoke Sunday, amid rapturous chanting from loyalists that they are with him with “all their blood and soul.” His speech was met by a roar of protest and mocking from Syrian citizens and opposition groups, as well as the international community. This was his first public speech in six months.The opposition says he lives in isolation and does not know what is going around him.
A Syrian regime media defector, who previously worked at the pro-Assad al-Dunya TV, informed Asharq Al-Awsat how the al-Assad regime fabricates news, misleads the public and distorts the reputation of the Syrian revolution on Syrian state television. The Syrian source, who spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat on the condition of anonymity, also leaked several clips taken from the archive of pro-Assad media that reveals just precisely how the Damascus regime is running its propaganda operations.
An explosive device planted in a public transport minibus a heavily Alawite quarter kills 3 individuals, injures 8
