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          Bashar Al Assad

          Latest news and stories about the ousted Syrian president who is now exiled in Moscow

          A handout picture released by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior on January 29, 2014 shows a photograph purportedly of Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The shadowy leader of thousands of Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq, many of them Westerners, appears to be surpassing Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri as the world's most influential jihadist. AFP Photo

          ISIL chief poised to become world’s most influential militant?

          WorldJune 05, 2014

          Opposition miserably defeated by Assad regime in the ‘war of images’

          The NationalJune 05, 2014
          A handout picture made from the official Syrian Arab News Agency shows Syrian citizens holding the national flags and photos depicting President Bashar Assad as they gather to celebrate his victory in presidential elections, in Latakia province, Syria on 5 May 2014. EPA/Sana handout

          Notion of choice is a fiction in Syria election

          WorldJune 05, 2014
          Samir Kassir’s murder, like that of Rafik Hariri and others, has never been solved. Hussein Malla / AP Photo

          Before his assassination, Samir Kassir foresaw the extent of Assad’s brutality in Syria today

          The NationalJune 04, 2014

          Despite the carnage, Syrians seem destined to retain their president

          The NationalJune 03, 2014
          Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and his wife Asma cast their ballots at a polling station in Damascus yesterday. AFP

          If Assad wins, what does that say about the opposition?

          The NationalJune 03, 2014
          A Syrian woman casts her ballot as she votes in presidential election on June 3, 2014 at Bassel Al Assad school which was turned into a polling station in central Damascus. Louai Beshara/AFP Photo

          Syrians head to polls set to extend Assad’s rule

          WorldJune 03, 2014

          Prosecution calls for maximum penalty for alleged Al Qaeda cell members

          UAEJune 02, 2014
          Free Syrian Army recruits training in Deraa on May 12, 2014. Mohamed Fares / Reuters

          The man at the centre of southern Syria’s crumbling rebel alliance

          WorldJune 01, 2014

          Transcript: Phil Sands on Syria’s fragmenting southern front

          WorldJune 01, 2014
          New Free Syrian Army recruits receive military training in Deraa province on May 12, 2014. Mohamed Fares/Reuters

          On the front lines of Syria’s war in the south

          WorldJune 01, 2014
          Rescue services, rebel fighters and civilians search for survivors at a site hit by what activists said was a barrel bomb dropped by the Syrian air force in Al Qarlaq neighbourhood of Aleppo. Jalal Al Mamo / Reuters / May 29, 2014

          Nearly 2,000 killed in Aleppo airstrikes this year

          WorldMay 31, 2014

          Syria to miss chemical weapons deadline, UN Security Council told

          WorldMay 29, 2014

          Negotiated settlement fades from view in the unending Syrian conflict

          The NationalMay 27, 2014

          Southern rebels strike as Syrian regime issues warning

          WorldMay 23, 2014
          Inmates in Aleppo’s main prison on Thursday after Syrian troops broke through a year-long rebel siege on the facility. George Ourfalian / Reuters / May 22, 2014

          Assad forces break Aleppo prison siege, find weary soldiers, prisoners

          WorldMay 22, 2014
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