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Russia: ‘Impossible’ to remove Syria’s Assad from power
Russia on Sunday said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s removal from power was not a part of past international agreements on the crisis and impossible to implement. “This is a precondition that is not contained in the Geneva communique (agreed by world powers in June) and which is impossible to implement…
Syrian opposition dismisses Assad call for talks amid attack on ‘western puppets’
Rebels say Syrian president offered no meaningful concessions in his first public speech in seven months Syria’s opposition and its international backers have rejected Bashar al-Assad’s latest initiative to end the 21 months of violence, insisting that he offered no meaningful concessions and should surrender power at once. Hopes of…
Clinton seeks alternatives to turn screws on Assad
SOFIA, Bulgaria — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed Sunday to bolster existing sanctions against the Syrian regime and seek further ones to block funding and arms shipments to Damascus. Seeking other ways to turn the screws on Assad a day after Russia and China vetoed a resolution on…
UN chief tells Assad: ‘Stop killing your people’
BEIRUT — UN chief Ban Ki-moon issued a call to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad to stop killing his people, warning the embattled president he was heading for a dead end. “Today, I say again to President Assad of Syria: Stop the violence. Stop killing your people. The path of repression is…
Syria’s Assad denies orders to kill
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied ordering the killing of thousands of protesters and said “only a crazy person” would target his own people, in a rare US interview released Wednesday. Speaking to ABC News, Assad brushed off widening international sanctions and questioned the UN death toll of more than 4,000 since the eruption of…
Syrian street hails new anti-regime front: activists
The Syrian National Council, a newly launched anti-regime front, has gained mass support in Syria with many people demanding it be recognised as the country’s sole authority, activists said on Monday. The popular support on Syria’s streets for the SNC, forged Sunday in Turkey, comes as US Defence Secretary Leon…
Fall of Syrian regime a ‘matter of time’: US
It is “a matter of time” before the Syrian regime headed by President Bashar al-Assad is ousted from power by a popular uprising, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said on Monday. Speaking in Tel Aviv after meeting his Israeli counterpart, Panetta said Washington and other foreign capitals had “made clear…
Syria faces more pressure as killing goes on
Syria faced mounting international pressure, a day after at least 28 civilians were killed, including 16 in the capital Damascus and a child, as security forces opened fire to quell the largest anti-regime rallies in four months. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Syria cannot now return to the…
20 killed in biggest Syrian protests so far: witnesses
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian security forces shot dead at least 20 protesters on Friday as hundreds of thousands of people staged the biggest protests so far against President Bashar al-Assad, witnesses and rights groups said. Assad, facing the greatest challenge to 40 years of Baath Party rule, has sought to…
Clinton says Syria’s Assad has lost legitimacy
WASHINGTON/AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has lost legitimacy and is “not indispensable,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday as tension soared over an assault by Assad loyalists on the U.S. and French embassies in Damascus. Clinton condemned the Syrian attacks and said Washington did not believe…
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