Bashar al-Assad

Iran to be invited to next round of talks on Syria: U.S. official

Iran will be invited to participate in talks in Vienna on Friday to discuss ending the conflict in S...

Oct 27, 2015 11:10 PM EDT

Putin uses Assad visit to talk up Kremlin role as Syria broker

Vladimir Putin used a rare visit to Moscow by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to talk up the Kremli...

Oct 21, 2015 06:44 PM EDT

Third Russian air strike on Syrian rebel group kills leader

Russian air strikes in Syria's Latakia province killed a rebel commander and four other fighters fro...

Oct 20, 2015 08:48 PM EDT

Syrian rebels say they receive more weapons for Aleppo battle

Rebels battling the Syrian army and its allies near Aleppo said on Monday they had received new supp...

Oct 20, 2015 08:52 AM EDT

China repeats opposition to force in Syria

China's foreign minister has repeated his country's opposition to the use of force to resolve the cr...

Oct 16, 2015 01:44 AM EDT

Syrian army and Russian jets target rebel towns north of Homs

Syrian troops and their allies, backed by Russian jets, attacked rebel-held towns north of the city ...

Oct 15, 2015 08:15 PM EDT

Iraq using info from new intelligence center to bomb Islamic State: official

Iraq has begun bombing Islamic State insurgents with help from a new intelligence center with staff ...

Oct 14, 2015 01:24 AM EDT

Top China paper says U.S., Russia playing Cold War game in Syria

China's top newspaper on Tuesday accused both the United States and Russia of replaying their Cold W...

Oct 13, 2015 01:34 AM EDT

Bomb attack deepens divisions as Turkey faces bitter election

Aside from a carefully worded statement urging unity, President Tayyip Erdogan was unusually quiet a...

Oct 12, 2015 01:49 AM EDT

Islamic State figures killed in air strike; Baghdadi not believed among them

Eight senior figures from Islamic State were killed in an air strike while meeting in a town in west...

Oct 12, 2015 01:31 AM EDT

Russia's Putin, Saudi defense minister agree to cooperate in Syria

Russian President Vladimir Putin met Saudi Arabia's defense minister on Sunday, in Moscow's biggest ...

Oct 11, 2015 08:38 PM EDT

NATO denounces Russian incursion into Turkish airspace

The United States and NATO denounced Russia on Monday for violating Turkish airspace and Ankara thre...

Oct 05, 2015 06:45 PM EDT

Middle East would be more stable if Saddam, Gaddafi still in power: Trump

U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Sunday the Middle East would be more ...

Oct 04, 2015 06:56 PM EDT

Russia begins Syria air strikes in its biggest Mideast intervention in decades

Russia launched air strikes in Syria on Wednesday in its biggest Middle East intervention in decades...

Sep 30, 2015 06:56 PM EDT

Qatar says Putin's Syria plan ignores root cause of crisis

Qatar's foreign minister said on Monday there was general international agreement with Russia on its...

Sep 29, 2015 07:00 AM EDT

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