# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 26 May, 2021
# Bashar Al-Assad
# Bashar Al-Assad
In the last multi-candidate poll in 2014, Bashar al-Assad took 88% of the vote.
# bashar-al-assad - Tuesday 4 September, 2018
# Rebels
# Rebels
The US President has warned Syria against launching an attack on the country’s last rebel stronghold.
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 11 April, 2018
# East Ghouta
# East Ghouta
Russia has vetoed a US-backed motion in the UN to probe the chemical strikes in Syria.
# bashar-al-assad - Sunday 8 April, 2018
# Douma
# Douma
Widespread claims today suggest that an attack on the town of Douma, which killed 70 people, saw the Syrian regime use deadly chlorine gas on the town’s residents.
# bashar-al-assad - Sunday 18 March, 2018
# Syria To Ireland
# Syria To Ireland
A Syrian refugee explains why he left his home country to start a new life in Ireland.
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 26 April, 2017
# Chemical Weapons
# Chemical Weapons
It says the chemical fingerprint was developed in Syrian laboratories.
# bashar-al-assad - Monday 24 April, 2017
# Khan Sheikhun
# Khan Sheikhun
It is one of the US’s largest-ever sanctions announcements.
# bashar-al-assad - Thursday 13 April, 2017
# Airstrikes
# Airstrikes
‘We don’t know whether those dead children were killed there … Were they dead at all?’
# bashar-al-assad - Tuesday 11 April, 2017
# History Lesson
# History Lesson
The White House Press Secretary is under fire once again for his comments.
# bashar-al-assad - Tuesday 4 April, 2017
# Six Years Of War
# Six Years Of War
At least 58 people died in the attack.
# bashar-al-assad - Tuesday 7 February, 2017
# War
# War
The Syrian president also accused the UN of being biased because of American, French and British influence.
# bashar-al-assad - Monday 28 November, 2016
# I Saw Deaths
# I Saw Deaths
Retaking the beleaguered city from rebel forces is key for regime head Bashar al Assad’s strategy in the now five-year war.
# bashar-al-assad - Sunday 27 November, 2016
# Five Years Of War
# Five Years Of War
An estimated 275,000 people are trapped in terrible conditions in the city’s rebel-held eastern districts.
# bashar-al-assad - Tuesday 20 September, 2016
# Ceasefire Collapse
# Ceasefire Collapse
The week-long ceasefire in the war-ravaged country has collapsed.
# bashar-al-assad - Monday 12 September, 2016
# Five Years Of War
# Five Years Of War
Rebels battling the Syrian regime and the political opposition are still weighing whether to abide by the agreement.
# bashar-al-assad - Sunday 27 March, 2016
# Retaken
# Retaken
The so-called caliphate took over the world heritage site and city in May 2015.
# bashar-al-assad - Tuesday 16 February, 2016
# Ceasefire
# Ceasefire
Bashar al-Assad said his troops would continue fighting “terrorists”.
# bashar-al-assad - Sunday 14 February, 2016
# Aleppo Explainer
# Aleppo Explainer
Aleppo in Syria is under heavy attack by government forces. What does this mean for the rebels and the civilians inside?
# bashar-al-assad - Monday 18 January, 2016
# Syria
# Syria
Syria’s state news agency SANA said at least 300 civilians were killed.
# bashar-al-assad - Sunday 17 January, 2016
# Syria
# Syria
The kidnappings happened in the wake of the so-called Islamic State’s deadly attack yesterday on the city of Deir ez-Zor in the east of Syria.
# bashar-al-assad - Thursday 7 January, 2016
# Syria
# Syria
The UN said the Syrian government has now given permission for aid deliveries after the images were shared all across the world.
# bashar-al-assad - Monday 28 December, 2015
# Homs
# Homs
At least 32 people died in bomb attacks in Homs.
# bashar-al-assad - Friday 18 December, 2015
# Peace Plan
# Peace Plan
The US and Moscow are ‘agreeing to disagree’ on the fate of Bashar al-Assad .
# bashar-al-assad - Sunday 6 December, 2015
# Terror
# Terror
The Syrian president also said the air strikes targeting Islamic State militants are illegal.
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 28 October, 2015
# Surreal
# Surreal
#SummerInSyria has been met with an incredulous online reaction.
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 21 October, 2015
# Flying Visit
# Flying Visit
A Kremlin spokesman described it as a “working visit”.
# bashar-al-assad - Saturday 17 October, 2015
# Dublin 7 Says Welcome
# Dublin 7 Says Welcome
29-year-old Syrian Motasem Hajali has lived in Ireland since February 2014.
# bashar-al-assad - Thursday 1 October, 2015
# Crossing Paths
# Crossing Paths
The Pentagon was riled, after getting only one hour’s vague ‘heads-up’ from Russia that it was about to start bombing.
# bashar-al-assad - Sunday 27 September, 2015
# Syria
# Syria
Western powers are ramping up efforts against the terrorist organisation.
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 20 May, 2015
# Syria
# Syria
Irish aid worker David Adams visited a clinic that helps to rehabilitate some of the casualties of the Syrian conflict.
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 18 March, 2015
# Four Years On
# Four Years On
More than 200,000 people have died since the conflict began in 2011.
# bashar-al-assad - Saturday 17 January, 2015
# Syria
# Syria
A newly-released Irish film documents the lives of people in Majdal Shams – one of five remaining Arab villages in the Golan Heights.
# bashar-al-assad - Thursday 1 January, 2015
# Four Years On
# Four Years On
Last year was the bloodiest since the conflict began in 2011.
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 4 June, 2014
# Syria
# Syria
At least three people are dead and others were wounded as a result of celebratory gunfire, as it was announced Assad won with a sweeping 88.7 per cent.
# bashar-al-assad - Monday 28 April, 2014
# Syria
# Syria
High-tech western military force does not end conflicts – it changes them.
# bashar-al-assad - Sunday 16 February, 2014
# South Sudan
# South Sudan
Thousands have been killed and many more forced from their homes by the recent fighting in South Sudan. As the situation grows ever more serious, David Adams describes what he has witnessed.
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 22 January, 2014
# No Peace
# No Peace
Syrian officials branded the opposition as traitors and insisted Assad will not give up power.
# bashar-al-assad - Monday 20 January, 2014
# Peace Talks
# Peace Talks
A surprise UN invite to Iran had thrown the talks into doubt.
# Syria
# Syria
The Syrian president has said in a new interview that war has forced his children to “grow up too early and mature much faster”.
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 13 November, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
“I did not say a proper goodbye to my father and did not even bury him. I don’t know who did and where,” said Ahmed, whose family has been forced to move around – inside and outside Syria – for more than a year after a shell destroyed their home.
Sun and clouds with a couple of showers
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Rain tapering off; watch for flooding
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