Tag: Bashar al-Assad

• Tuesday, April 17th 2018 - 08:01 UTC

  UK/Russia relations “worse than during the Cold War” because of Russiaphobia

  

  Diplomatic tensions between the UK and Russia deepened amid claims that Moscow was blocking investigators from reaching the site of a chemical weapons attack in Syria. The UK said it was “essential” the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was granted “unfettered access” to Douma.

• Saturday, April 14th 2018 - 13:53 UTC

  US coalition: Strikes in Syria increases tension; reactions worldwide

  

  Bombs have fallen. Damascus has been beaten again. The United States, United Kingdom and France coalition launched airstrikes against Syrian targets as Donald Trump sought to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a suspected chemical attack last weekend near Damascus that killed more than 40 people.

• Monday, April 10th 2017 - 06:48 UTC

  UK says Russia is responsible by proxy for civilian deaths in Syrian poison gas attack

  

  Britain said on Sunday Russia bore responsibility by proxy for civilian deaths in Syria last week caused by a poison gas attack that Washington says was carried out by the Moscow-backed government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. At least 70 people died in what the United States says was a chemical weapons attack in rebel-held Syria.

• Friday, December 9th 2016 - 15:25 UTC

  UK faces threat of “unprecedented” proportions, says British chief spy

  

  MI6 Director Alex Younger said on Thursday that the unprecedented terrorist threat his country is going through would not abate until the end of the civil war in Syria. Ha added that 12 plots to commit an attack have been dismantled since June 2013 and warned that “the efficiently murderous” Islamic state continues to plan attacks from Syria, despite recent military setbacks.

• Saturday, November 21st 2015 - 08:30 UTC

  UN Security Council authorizes “all necessary measures” to fight ISIS

  

  The UN Security Council on Friday (Nov 20) authorized countries to “take all necessary measures” to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group in a resolution that won unanimous backing a week after the Paris attacks.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2015 - 05:46 UTC

  Obama willing to work with Iran and Russia to end Syrian conflict, but not with President al-Assad

  

  The United States is willing to work with Iran and Russia to try to end the Syrian conflict, US President Barack Obama on Monday but insisted there could not be a return to the status quo under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

• Monday, October 21st 2013 - 19:52 UTC

  Support for Saudi Arabia's rejection of UN Security Council seat

  

  Saudi Arabia's Gulf Arab allies and Egypt have applauded its decision to reject a UN Security Council seat in protest at the world body's failure to act on Syria, whose leader is backed by Russia and Shi'ite Iran.

• Friday, August 30th 2013 - 00:19 UTC

  UK drops out of military intervention in Syria; PM Cameron loses vote in Parliament

  

  British MPs have rejected possible UK military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government to deter the use of chemical weapons. A government motion was defeated by 285 to 272, a majority of 13 votes.

• Friday, March 1st 2013 - 06:39 UTC

  Be careful: Russia is back to stay in the Middle East

  

  Russia is back. President Vladimir Putin wants the world to acknowledge that Russia remains a global power. He is making his stand in Syria. The Soviet Union acquired the Tartus Naval Port in Syria in 1971 without any real purpose for it. With their ships welcomed in Algeria, Cuba or Vietnam, Tartus was too insignificant to be developed. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia lacked the funds to spend on the base and no reason to invest in it.

• Monday, February 6th 2012 - 06:51 UTC

  Chavez supports Russia/China veto on UN Syrian resolution as “very positive”

  

  While Western and Arab countries responded with outrage after Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez considered the veto as “very positive”.