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PACE to Dismiss its President for Visiting Assad

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 28, 2017 | World

London-The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) took a decision to consider the changes to the regulations that would allow dismissing the President of Assembly Pedro Agramunt because of a visit to head of Syrian regime Bashar al-Assad...

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Stephen O’Brien briefs the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Syria, UN: Rick Bajornas

UNSC Reviews Syria’s Humanitarian Condition amid Divisions

by Jordan Dakamseh | Apr 28, 2017 | Middle East

New York – United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien briefed the UN Security Council on the exasperating humanitarian situation in Syria on Thursday. O’Brien’s speech focused on the...

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French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault speaks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (not pictured) during their meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, China April 14, 2017. REUTERS/Parker Song/Pool

France Has Evidence Assad Regime Used Chemical Weapons

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 20, 2017 | Middle East

London– The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Wednesday that sarin or a similar banned toxin was used in an attack in Syria’s Idlib province on April 4. Reuters quoted the organization’s director, General Ahmet Uzumcu as saying that the...

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President Vladimir Putin at a news conference at the Kremlin in Moscow. (Reuters)

Putin Cautions Iran and Assad

by Tariq Alhomayed | Apr 13, 2017 | Opinion

When asked by a reporter if he expected more US missile strikes on Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin replied: “We have information that a similar provocation is being prepared … in other parts of Syria, including in the southern Damascus suburbs...

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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

Russian Veto Protects Assad’s Chemicals

by Taha Abdul Wahed and Asharq Al Awsat | Apr 13, 2017 | Middle East

Moscow, New York – Russia on Wednesday vetoed a UN draft resolution that calls on the Syrian regime to cooperate in investigating a chemical attack in the province of Idlib last week. It was the eighth time during Syria’s six-year-old civil war that Moscow has used...