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Syrian regime forces walk carrying mines in the strategic area of the Bazo hilltop, north of Khan Tuman on the southern outskirts of the northern embattled Syrian city of Aleppo. GEORGES OURFALIAN / AFP

Bring Assad and his Backers to Account Now

by John Allen and Charles Lister | Oct 26, 2016 | Opinion

For 5½ years, the Syrian regime has tortured, shot, bombed and gassed its own people with impunity, with the resulting human cost clear for all to see: nearly 500,000 dead and 11 million displaced. Since Russia’s military intervention began one year ago, conditions...

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Russian Jets Intensify Raids on Aleppo after the Regime Fails to Advance

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 12, 2016 | Middle East

The Russian air force has intensified its raids on neighbourhoods in eastern Aleppo after attacks carried out by the Syrian regime’s forces aimed at recapturing southern neighbourhoods in besieged eastern Aleppo failed. Opposition forces also recaptured most of the...

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Rebel fighters stand on the road between the villages of Zahraa and Nubol in the northern Syrian Aleppo province during clashes with pro-regime fighters in 2014. (Mohamad Zeen/AFP)

Assad’s Regime Seeks to Empty Aleppo in Exchange for ‘Russian Guarantees’

by Nazeer Rida and Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 3, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut, London-The Bashar Assad regime has called on opposition fighters to leave the eastern suburbs of Aleppo in exchange for Russian guarantees, in a new sign showing the regime -with the support of Moscow-is seeking to produce a demographic change in Syria. In a...

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A civil defence member carries a child that survived from under the rubble at a site hit by airstrikes in the rebel held area of Old Aleppo, Syria, April 28, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail

Pro-Regime Airstrikes Shut Aleppo Hospital, Cut Water Supply

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 2, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut- The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and local Syrian coordination committees reported that Russian and regime warplanes have bombed one of Aleppo’s central hospitals on Saturday for the second time in four days. The attack resulted in the...

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Opinion: Egypt’s Flirtation With the Syrian Regime

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Sep 28, 2016 | Opinion

Not many people are interested in the official statements made by the Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry that some portrayed as being biased towards Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. Neither did they stir up sensitivity in some Gulf countries as some people expected them...