# bashar-al-assad - Thursday 2 May, 2013
The potential rethink comes a week after the US said that they believed that chemical weapons had been used in the country.
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# bashar-al-assad - Monday 29 April, 2013
159 passengers were on the NordWind Airlines plane when two land-to-air missiles exploded nearby.
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# bashar-al-assad - Thursday 25 April, 2013
Obama previously said that their use would be a “grave and tragic” mistake on Assad’s behalf and that it would be a “game changer.”
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Tens of thousands have died in the ongoing, bloody conflict in Syria to date – and those who remain live under constant threat of violence. Midwife Cathy Janssens writes about trying to bring new life into the world in such unstable circumstances.
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# bashar-al-assad - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
The EU’s member states have a trade embargo against the Syrian government – but will import petrol from rebel territory.
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# bashar-al-assad - Monday 22 April, 2013
Russia said the EU decision was “counter-productive”.
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# bashar-al-assad - Thursday 11 April, 2013
Iran’s atomic ambitions, instability in north and west Africa, and climate change will also be up for discussion.
# bashar-al-assad - Monday 8 April, 2013
Today’s additional contribution brings Ireland’s total response to the humanitarian crisis in Syria to €8.15 million.
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# bashar-al-assad - Saturday 6 April, 2013
Assad has said the fall of his regime would cause a “domino effect” that would lead to years of instability in the Middle East.
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# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
The League called for the opposition National Coalition “to form an executive body to take up Syria’s seat” and attend its summit later this month.
# bashar-al-assad - Saturday 2 March, 2013
Iran’s foreign minister says the country officially expects Assad to remain in power for the rest of his mandate, and run again.
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# bashar-al-assad - Thursday 28 February, 2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry said that president Bashar al-Assad was “out of time and must be out of power.”
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# bashar-al-assad - Saturday 23 February, 2013
Shamseddin Gaidan, 16, is believed to have joined the rebels after returning to his native Libya last summer.
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# bashar-al-assad - Thursday 31 January, 2013
Russia’s foreign ministry said it was “deeply concerned” by the Syrian claims and that it was taking “urgent measures” to clarify the situation.
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# bashar-al-assad - Sunday 6 January, 2013
The Syrian President said he would soon give details of his plan which calls on foreign countries to stop funding the armed opposition.
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# bashar-al-assad - Friday 4 January, 2013
Over 160 people died in violence across the country yesterday, including 72 civilians.
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# bashar-al-assad - Thursday 20 December, 2012
Hudhaifa ElSayed, who was born in Egypt, had moved to Ireland as a young boy. He left to join rebel forces in Syria a number of months ago.
# bashar-al-assad - Sunday 16 December, 2012
The fall of the army installation in Syria’s largest city is the last blow to the regime of Bashar al-Assad .
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 12 December, 2012
The US President said Syria’s opposition is the legitimate representative of the country’s people – the most significant US intervention so far in the brutal civil war.
# bashar-al-assad - Tuesday 20 November, 2012
Members say they will be a security shield over the ‘sons of the revolution’ – but will hunt down abusers on either side.
# bashar-al-assad - Monday 19 November, 2012
Italy follows the lead of France in formally declaring that the newly-formed administration-in-waiting is a legitimate one.
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# bashar-al-assad - Thursday 8 November, 2012
The beleaguered Syrian president is defiant, telling Russian TV: “I am not a puppet, I was not made by the West”.
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# bashar-al-assad - Friday 26 October, 2012
The tenuous truce reportedly collapsed in several regions – giving an early evening death toll of 61 dead, including civilians, soldiers and rebels.
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# bashar-al-assad - Friday 12 October, 2012
Germany will enter discussions on the steady deterioration of relations between Syria and Turkey, following deadly airstrikes.
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 10 October, 2012
The foreign ministry said it had twice implemented a ceasefire – but rebels had used it as an opportunity to ” expand their armed deployment”.
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# bashar-al-assad - Thursday 4 October, 2012
Turkey has fired on Syrian targets this morning in reprisal for deadly cross-border fire yesterday, as tensions in the region sharply escalate.
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# bashar-al-assad - Thursday 27 September, 2012
A human rights watchdog yesterday’s death toll – which doesn’t include unidentified bodies – is the highest yet.
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# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 5 September, 2012
Lakhdar Brahimi told the UN General Assembly that the destruction in the country is reaching “catastrophic proportions and the suffering of the people is immense”.
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# bashar-al-assad - Tuesday 21 August, 2012
President Obama says the issue of Syrian WMDs is two-fold, raising fears that chemical or biological weapons may fall into the hands of anti-Israeli extremists.
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# bashar-al-assad - Saturday 18 August, 2012
TV reports said ‘Shara’ had defected – but Syrian State TV says it’s only the cousin of vice-president Faruq al-Shara.
# bashar-al-assad - Tuesday 14 August, 2012
Riad Hijab, highest-ranking political figure to defect from the government, said he felt “pain in his soul” over the regime’s shelling and other attacks on rebel strongholds.
# bashar-al-assad - Monday 13 August, 2012
The Syrian delegate to the UN Human Rights Council is the first based in Switzerland
# bashar-al-assad - Thursday 9 August, 2012
Meanwhile, President Assad appointed a new prime minister to replace the one who defected to neighbouring Jordan earlier this week.
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 8 August, 2012
At least 37 people – 17 civilians, 10 rebels and 10 soldiers – were reportedly killed in the northern city of Aleppo.
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# bashar-al-assad - Friday 3 August, 2012
The Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution criticising the Security Council’s failure to act on the Syria conflict.
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# bashar-al-assad - Saturday 28 July, 2012
Fears are growing about the safety of civilians in Syria’s second city, with reports of massive assaults on several neighbourhoods.
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# bashar-al-assad - Monday 23 July, 2012
The move is an attempt to take over rebel-held areas in Damascus and Aleppo, two of the biggest cities in the country.
# bashar-al-assad - Friday 20 July, 2012
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Iraq says that all of its borders with Syria have been seized.
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# bashar-al-assad - Thursday 19 July, 2012
The British PM has said it is time for Bashar al-Assad to go, and that if there isn’t transition, “there is going to be civil war”.
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# bashar-al-assad - Friday 13 July, 2012
At least 200 people, mostly civilians, are thought to be dead after the single most violent attack reported in the bloody 16-month uprising.
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