Sentences with phrase «syrian president»

Nauert said that the possible chemical attack comes a little more than a year after «Assad's forces conducted a sarin gas attack on Khan Sheikhoun, which killed approximately 100 Syrians,» referring to Syrian President Bashar al - Assad.

Syrian President Bashar al - Assad is facing a massive revolt and has been firing on civilians, using snipers, murderous thugs, and now gunships.

For the same reason we should care very much about Syrian president Bashar Al - Assad's brutal crackdown on all Syrian citizens: because our relations with the Al - Assad regime helped foster the culture of impunity that is fueling today's carnage.

«They told us it was full,» said Syrian President Bashar al - Assad.

Following an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, President Trump attacks Syrian President Assad as an «animal» and promises an imminent decision on strong response, floating military action.

> Artist Youssef Abdelke was held for more than two months by forces loyal to the Syrian president tan

The shooting took place after a day of protests in Turkey over Russian support for Syrian President Bashar al - Assad, and the day before Turkey, Russia and Iran were due to meet over the Syria crisis.

The city of Raqqa, situated along the Euphrates River, was a hub for citizens seeking shelter from areas still under the control of Syrian President Bashar Al - Assad in the wake of the 2012 Arab Spring movement.

Children carry the body of a friend who was killed by shelling during heavy fighting between the Free Syrian Army and the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus earlier this year.

The city first drew militants in the uprising against Syrian president Bashar al - Assad, but in the revolution's wake, IS set up camp.

In Raqqa, Syria, a campaign launched by citizen journalists is exposing the atrocities committed by the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al - Assad and the extremist group ISIS.

«This is very positive,» agreed Chen Kane, senior research associate at the Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies, although she said precautions should be taken in case Syrian President Bashar al - Assad tries to conceal part of his chemical weapons stockpile as did dictators Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Moammar Gadhafi in Libya.

But we also know that they are too busy fighting hostile rebel groups, as well as the troops of Syrian president Bashar al - Assad and those of the Iraqi government, to be seriously thinking about blowing up buses in London.

During a stop at the New York State Fair, Gillibrand said there's a humanitarian crisis in Syria that must be addressed by the United States and other countries, adding that Syrian President Bashar al - Assad must be put on notice that recent attacks against civilians are unacceptable to the world community.

Former President George W. Bush, in an interview, said Obama has a «touch choice to make» on potential U.S. military action against Syrian President Bashar al - Assad, who is accused of using chemical weapons against civilians.

Accusations escalated Wednesday in Ohio's Democratic primary for governor over former U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich's work with an organization sympathetic to the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

At a news conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague Monday, Kerry appeared to give Syrian president Bashar al - Assad an opportunity to avoid a U.S. military strike.

Media Matters pointed out that in an April 10, 2007, speech, Romney criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her «partisan» trip to Syria, but he did not mention that a Republican was a member of her delegation, or that a separate Republican - led delegation had met with the Syrian President three days before Pelosi did.

I came across the phrase Jeffersonian Democracy recently (related to «U.S. stated goal of ushering in a Jeffersonian democracy to replace Syrian President Bashar Assad»; article here), but I don't see what is so special about it.

The Kremlin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin, a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad, viewed the action taken by Trump as an «aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law and on a made - up up pretext».

Sen. Charles Schumer, the Senate's minority leader, said the chemical attacks Syrian President Bashar al - Assad committed deserved retribution.

She drew scrutiny for secretly meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad and criticizing the U.S. strike on Syria following Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons on civilians.

Weighing in on one of the most contentious issues in American politics — the danger posed to host countries by the 4.8 million people who have fled from Syria's civil war — Syrian President Bashar al - Assad told Yahoo News that some of the refugees are «definitely» terrorists.

Syrian president Bashar Al - Assad is almost certainly going to be deposed in a popular uprising but it could prove to be a long and bloody attempt to unseat him in 2012.

Mr Hague said he wanted to see «concrete action» from the Syrian president if he was to restore any credibility with the Syrian people.

This led to the White House deploring the Syrian President for violating international norms and the UN Chemical Weapons Convention.

Syrian President Bashar Assad is also thought to have used a network of front companies to import the precursors needed to make VX, the deadliest nerve agent ever created, The New York Times reported Sunday.

In an interview with The House magazine last month, she defied the Labour leader to call for Syrian president Bashar al - Assad to be «removed» if he was found to be responsible for a chemical weapons on his own citizens.

surprised no one by applauding the aggressive pushback against Syrian President Bashar Assad's suspected use of poison gas on civilians.

Turkish and U.S. officials on Thursday held their first «operational planning» meeting aimed at bringing about the end of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad's embattled regime

Syrian President Bashar al - Assad may be preparing a chemical - weapons attack that would result in the «mass murder» of civilians, the White House has said while warning Syria's government that it would pay a «heavy price» if it goes ahead.

This includes targeting and attacking «moderate» Syrian fighters who oppose Syrian President Bashar al - Assad, a longtime ally of Russia, as well as the Islamic State.

I came across the phrase Jeffersonian Democracy recently (related to «U.S. stated goal of ushering in a Jeffersonian democracy to replace Syrian President Bashar Assad»; article here), but I don't see...

In criticizing Syrian President Bashar al - Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said today that even Adolf Hitler did not sink to that level of warfare, despite Hitler's use of gas chambers to kill millions of Jews.

They are Sunni Muslims, whereas Syrian President Bashar al - Assad belongs to the minority Alawite sect, which is a mystical religious group of Shia Islam.

The Islamic State (ISIS) is fighting Syrian President Assad's regime, Kurdish militaries, the Iraqi army, and rebel forces in Syria.

Meanwhile, Moscow's support for Syrian president Bashar Al Assad has given him free rein to perpetrate human rights atrocities, Penny Mordaunt will say at an international conference this week.

There have also been more calls for the UK and US to hold talks with Syrian President Assad in the struggle to tackle the extremists.

The government of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad says that it has recaptured the entire city of Aleppo.

The former defence minister also said that David Cameron must be willing to talk to the Syrian President Bashar al - Assad, and his ally Russian president Vladimir Putin, in order to solve the refugee crisis for good.

Just as leaders of Russia, the United States, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar prepared to meet to discuss ways to end the war in Syria, Syrian President Bashar al - Assad was quoted saying that his forced will continue «to clean» Aleppo, invoking genocidal language.

Among other Russian misdeeds, Pompeo said, are the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in Britain last month and its support for Syrian President Bashar Assad's government.

Russian stocks and the corresponding exchange traded funds have been in the spotlight recently as the country continues its support of controversial Syrian President Bashar al - Assad.

(As it turned out, within hours of this discussion, 105 missiles had been rained down on three of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad's chemical weapons facilities, under the orders of the commander in chief.)

If the «price» for the attack was punishing airstrikes against the forces of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad, the White House isn't saying.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed in a letter to Syrian President Bashar Assad on Saturday his country's willingness to aid in the post-civil war reconstruction of Syria, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported.

Earlier on Thursday, Syrian President Bashar al - Assad warned the West against attacking Syria, saying accusations about the suspected chemical attack on Douma were «fabricated.»

In recent weeks the American public has been inundated with reports claiming the U.S., the U.K., and France have conclusive evidence that Syrian President...

The existing Syrian president's father killed 20,000 of his own citizens there in 1982.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called on Moscow to help resolve the crisis in Syria, where Russia and Iran are backing Syrian President Bashar al - Assad.