Tag: President Bashar al-Assad

"The Russians have the narrative that there are terrorists in Idlib. That is a true statement. We share their concern about terrorism emanating from northern, northwest Syria."

"The JCPOA brought billions of dollars to the regime, which used that money ... for terrorism and subversion all across the Middle East."

Israel is watching closely: there is reportedly a strong presence of Iranian-backed militias in parts of Quneitra.

"Without Assad’s blessing, the flags of Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard would not be on Israel’s front door."

“The attack shows clearly that Syria continues to possess lethal chemical weapons capabilities and even to manufacture new ones."

Dozens of Syrian civilians -- most of them women and children, many of whom were in underground shelters -- were killed in what appeared to have been a horrific sarin gas attack in the Eastern Ghouta town of Douma.

"As Jews who have experienced genocide, as Jews whose Torah is a light to the nations, it is our moral obligation to try and stop this murder."

The Washington Free Beacon reported the US is monitoring reports that North Korea is helping President Bashar al-Assad rebuild Syria's chemical and other weapons at an underground military base.

There has also been another chemical attack, the second in less than a week -- aimed at the nearby town of Arbin.

The injured were allegedly brought to the Syrian-Israeli border, and then transferred to Ziv Medical Center in Tzefat, according to an Israeli source.

Druze residents in the Golan Heights maintain a complicated relationship with Israel.

The incident carries broader regional implications, due to the fact that Iran is using armed drones in a military theater along Israel's borders.

A pickup truck carried the bomb used in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility.

Even the Arab Joint List party, which rarely criticizes excesses by the Arab world, had called the Syrian sarin gas attack a “war crime.”

"Terrorism has no borders, no nationality, no religion; and therefore joint action with a holistic approach ... is crucial," King Abdullah said.

A Syrian mortar shell exploded in northern Israel near the border in the Golan Heights.

DM Liberman and FM Lavrov spoke by phone for an extended period about Syria and the Palestinian Authority.

New Zealand PM John Key chaired the UN Security Council session in his final month of a 2-year rotation as president.

It's not clear who killed 80 Syrian soldiers but the US-Russian ceasefire is crumbling. Israel's deployed the Iron Dome.

Eighty thousand Aleppo residents starve as their fate is determined by which side blinks first in a game of chicken played in a ceasefire.

Another Syrian mortar shell has exploded in northern Israel, also in the Golan Heights, the second in less than two weeks.

Rohani said the reason Israel is not bombing Iran is not because it doesn't want to, but because it fears Tehran's retaliation.