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The CIA sign is seen onstage before the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama to speak following a meeting with his National Security Council at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia April 13, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is seen during the filming of an interview with the BBC, in Damascus February 9, 2015. Assad said third parties including Iraq were conveying information to Damascus about a U.S.-led campaign of air strikes against the Islamic State militant group in Syria. In an interview with the BBC broadcast on Tuesday […]
Opinion: Like Father, Like Son
In the past few days I have been bombarded with messages drawing my attention to the emergence of a new chorus on Syria. The new song is sung by all sorts of people: British and American journalists, Israeli pundits and former officials, Russian and Iranian government...Caption:
Former Syrian vice-president Abdul Halim Khaddam speaks with Asharq Al-Awsat. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Abdul Halim Khaddam: Those who vote for Bashar are acting out of fear
Paris, Asharq Al-Awsat—Abdul Halim Khaddam originally met Hafez Al-Assad in the early 1950s when still a student activist, the beginning of a life-long association that would see Khaddam elevated to the posts of foreign minister and then vice-president of Syria. His...Caption:
A picture taken on May 18, 2014 in the capital Damascus shows an election campaign poster bearing a portrait of President Bashar al-Assad. Campaigning began last week for Syria’s June 3 presidential election expected to return Bashar al-Assad to power. AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA
Opinion: Assad in the Footsteps of the French
Has the faction led by President Bashar Al-Assad already won the three-year long civil war in Syria? The tendency in the Western commentariat is to answer the question with a qualified yes. A similar tune is whistled by some in Tehran and Moscow, Assad’s principal...Caption:
In this Friday August 16, 2013, file photo, a Lebanese army soldier passes in front of burned cars at the site of a car bomb explosion in an overwhelmingly Shiite area and stronghold of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)