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# bashar-al-assad - Tuesday 4 September, 2018
'Don't let hundreds of thousands of people be killed': Trump's warning to Syria
The US President has warned Syria against launching an attack on the country’s last rebel stronghold.
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 11 April, 2018
Trump warns Russia over Syria situation, says missiles 'will be coming'
Russia has vetoed a US-backed motion in the UN to probe the chemical strikes in Syria.
# bashar-al-assad - Sunday 8 April, 2018
Alleged Syria chemical attack unites nations in condemnation as Trump calls al-Assad an 'animal'
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
'People aren't fleeing for no reason, they are forced to leave - forced by killing'
A Syrian refugee explains why he left his home country to start a new life in Ireland.
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 26 April, 2017
France is in no doubt who it blames for deadly sarin gas attack
It says the chemical fingerprint was developed in Syrian laboratories.
# bashar-al-assad - Monday 24 April, 2017
US blacklists Syrian chemists over deadly sarin gas attack
It is one of the US’s largest-ever sanctions announcements.
# bashar-al-assad - Thursday 13 April, 2017
Syrian president claims chemical attack was faked by US
‘We don’t know whether those dead children were killed there … Were they dead at all?’
# bashar-al-assad - Tuesday 11 April, 2017
Sean Spicer just said even Hitler 'didn't sink to using chemical weapons'
The White House Press Secretary is under fire once again for his comments.
# bashar-al-assad - Tuesday 4 April, 2017
US points finger at Assad after suspected chemical attack kills dozens in Syria
At least 58 people died in the attack.
# bashar-al-assad - Tuesday 7 February, 2017
Assad says defending Syria is more important than UN action against him
The Syrian president also accused the UN of being biased because of American, French and British influence.
# bashar-al-assad - Monday 28 November, 2016
Seven-year-old girl tweets of being "between death and life" as Aleppo on verge of falling
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
'Children are being killed': Hundreds flee to government-held districts in Aleppo
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
UN suspends all humanitarian aid convoys in Syria after deadly airstrike
The week-long ceasefire in the war-ravaged country has collapsed.
# bashar-al-assad - Monday 12 September, 2016
'Civilians have no hope anymore': Unclear if rebels will agree to ceasefire in Syria
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
Islamic State has been forced out of Palmyra in a 'major symbolic victory' for Syrian forces
The so-called caliphate took over the world heritage site and city in May 2015.
# bashar-al-assad - Tuesday 16 February, 2016
Syria's leader says ceasefire "does not mean everyone stops using their weapons"
Bashar al-Assad said his troops would continue fighting “terrorists”.
# bashar-al-assad - Sunday 14 February, 2016
A city destroyed: What you need to know about Aleppo
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
At least 135 dead and 400 abducted in Islamic State 'massacre'
Syria’s state news agency SANA said at least 300 civilians were killed.
# bashar-al-assad - Sunday 17 January, 2016
Isis kidnap more than 400 civilians in wake of deadly city attack which left "300 dead"
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
Shocking videos show the starving children trapped in a Syrian town
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
Rare evacuations in Syria as latest blasts kill dozens
At least 32 people died in bomb attacks in Homs.
# bashar-al-assad - Friday 18 December, 2015
The UN Security Council has backed a US-Russian plan for peace in Syria
The US and Moscow are ‘agreeing to disagree’ on the fate of Bashar al-Assad.
# bashar-al-assad - Sunday 6 December, 2015
Assad says Britain's bombing campaign will only cause terrorism to spread
The Syrian president also said the air strikes targeting Islamic State militants are illegal.
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 28 October, 2015
A Syrian tourism campaign is not getting the reaction it might have wanted
#SummerInSyria has been met with an incredulous online reaction.
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 21 October, 2015
Assad made his first foreign visit in four years. Guess where he went?
A Kremlin spokesman described it as a “working visit”.
# bashar-al-assad - Saturday 17 October, 2015
"Would we choose Isis or the regime? We want neither, we want a third choice..."
29-year-old Syrian Motasem Hajali has lived in Ireland since February 2014.
# bashar-al-assad - Thursday 1 October, 2015
The US and Russia are starting "deconfliction" talks on Syria
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
France launches air strikes targeting Islamic State
Western powers are ramping up efforts against the terrorist organisation.
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 20 May, 2015
'Children are being targeted by snipers and civilians shot in the street'
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
Deadly chlorine attack kills entire family in Syria
More than 200,000 people have died since the conflict began in 2011.
# bashar-al-assad - Saturday 17 January, 2015
'The war has divided families more than decades of Israeli occupation ever did'
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
More than 76,000 Syrians were killed in 2014
Last year was the bloodiest since the conflict began in 2011.
# bashar-al-assad - Wednesday 4 June, 2014
Three dead as supporters celebrate Assad election win
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
Column: Western powers should not intervene in Syria
High-tech western military force does not end conflicts – it changes them.
# bashar-al-assad - Sunday 16 February, 2014
Column: "The bodies are all gone, eaten by the dogs"
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
Rough start to Syria talks as both sides dig in but have yet to meet
Syrian officials branded the opposition as traitors and insisted Assad will not give up power.
# bashar-al-assad - Monday 20 January, 2014
UN cancels Iran invite to Syria talks, Iran says they weren't going to go anyway
A surprise UN invite to Iran had thrown the talks into doubt.
'It's difficult to explain the conflict to my children' --- Assad
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
Column: Leaving it all behind – a Syrian family’s journey to safety
“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.
# bashar-al-assad - Monday 11 November, 2013
Syrian opposition agrees to enter Geneva talks
The Syrian National Coalition have set out a number of conditions for their participation, however, and say Bashar al Assad can have “no role” in any transitional government.
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Poll: Who is the right person to lead the Green Party in government?
AFTER PASSING THE programme for government, the Green Party now turn to a leadership contest to decide who will lead the party through the new coalition.
While not a leadership heave, deputy party leader Catherine Martin has stepped up to challenge current party leader Eamon Ryan for the position.
With hustings having begun in earnest last night, today we’re asking who is the best candidate to lead the Green Party through government?
Poll: Who is the best candidate to lead the Green Party through government?
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