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Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

Dozens of U.S. Diplomats Urge Military Strikes against Syria’s Assad

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 17, 2016 | World

An internal memo, sharply critical of U.S. policy in Syria, was signed by more than 50 mid- to high-level State Department officers involved with advising on Syria policy, calling for military strikes against Bashar al-Assad’s government to end its violations of...

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Taken from the Asharq Al-Awsat Arabic website 18th November 2015

Opinion: An Intervention that the World will be Forced to Make

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Nov 18, 2015 | Opinion

The recent act of terrorism in Paris has confirmed one, definite thing; the necessity for intervention in Syria and putting an end to this chaos, the dangers of which have reached beyond the Middle East. In Vienna, instead of solving the crisis with intervention, the...

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Iraqi’s take part in a funeral for a man said to have been killed during fighting in Syria’s Sit Zeinab neighbourhood on the southern outskirts of Damascus, in Basra on May 6, 2013. AFP Photo/Razmi Al-Shaban

Baghdad acknowledges presence of Iraqi fighters in Syria

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 12, 2013 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The government of Iraq made its first implicit admission of the presence of Iraqi fighters in neighboring Syria on Tuesday. Ali Musawi, media advisor to Iraqi prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki, said: “The Iraqi government is committed to a policy...

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Syrian protesters chant anti-President Bashar Assad slogans and wave a revolutionary flag in front of their embassy in Amman, Jordan, Friday, May 17, 2013 to condemn a May 10 massacre in Banias, Syria. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

Opinion: Is there any hope for Syria?

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Jun 2, 2013 | Opinion

This war is unlike other Arab wars; it is a war between the major symbols of different identities, or at least that is how this conflict is being framed. Our past, and our discourse, is sectarian. Last Monday, the editor-in-chief of the Al-Safeer newspaper, well-known...

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Syrian protesters chant anti-President Bashar Assad slogans and wave a revolutionary flag in front of their embassy in Amman, Jordan, Friday, May 17, 2013 to condemn a May 10 massacre in Banias, Syria. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

Opinion: The Heart of the Syrian Revolution

by Diana Moukalled | May 20, 2013 | Opinion

After showing the dead body to his audience, a Syrian rebel known as Abu Saqqar held up an internal organ he had ripped out of a Syrian regime soldier, looked at the camera and brutally bit into it. Abu Saqqar did not settle for this lone act, but instead vowed to...