Bashar Al Assad Regime

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime is "no longer immune" from retaliation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned during a visit to London on Thursday.

A Syrian rebel group which still controls a pocket of the Eastern Ghouta enclave on Thursday announced a ceasefire from midnight to allow negotiations with the regime's ally Russia, a spokesman for the faction said.

Syrian regime air strikes on the besieged rebel stronghold of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus killed more than 30 civilians including children on Sunday, a monitoring group said.

Government forces seized territory inside Syria's rebel enclave Eastern Ghouta Saturday, intensifying fighting as tens of thousands of civilians in the besieged enclave near Damascus awaited urgently needed aid.

Heavy Syrian bombardment killed at least 77 civilians in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta on Monday, a war monitor said, as regime forces appeared to prepare for an imminent ground assault.

It is over a year since Bashar al-Assad's regime, with the help of Russian air strikes and barrel bombs, pounded the rebel-held east of Aleppo into submission.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may be preparing a chemical weapons attack that would result in the "mass murder" of civilians, the White House said Monday, warning the regime would pay a "heavy price" if it goes ahead.

Russia on Friday criticised the world's chemical weapons watchdog for not sending experts to the site of an alleged chemical attack in Syria, backing up President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

The regime of Bashar al-Assad bears 'primary responsibility' after a suspected chemical attack that killed at least 58 people in a rebel-held town in Syria, EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini said.

Britain repeated its call on Tuesday that President Bashar al-Assad should step aside, citing his "barbaric cruelty" toward Syria's people, as his forces stood poised to recapture Aleppo.

The White House on Saturday condemned the Assad regime's "defiance" of international norms after United Nations experts found the Syrian army had conducted three chemical weapons attacks against its own people in 2014 and 2015.

The 1979 Soviet intervention in Afghanistan was a "tragic mistake", Russia's Ambassador to Pakistan Alexey Y Dedov has said, but claimed that it's not similar to Russia's support for the "legitimate regime" of Syrian President Bashar al Assad.

President Bashar al-Assad said Wednesday that any transitional government in Syria should include both the regime and opposition, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged greater efforts to tackle the country's refugee crisis.

Syria's peace talks hit a fresh impasse over President Bashar al-Assad on Monday, as the head of Lebanon's Hezbollah vowed his Shiite movement would keep fighting alongside the regime until ISIS terrorists are defeated.

America's 2016 presidential candidates are split on promoting regime change in the Middle East, but not along the usual party lines.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime is "no longer immune" from retaliation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned during a visit to London on Thursday.

A Syrian rebel group which still controls a pocket of the Eastern Ghouta enclave on Thursday announced a ceasefire from midnight to allow negotiations with the regime's ally Russia, a spokesman for the faction said.

Syrian regime air strikes on the besieged rebel stronghold of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus killed more than 30 civilians including children on Sunday, a monitoring group said.

Government forces seized territory inside Syria's rebel enclave Eastern Ghouta Saturday, intensifying fighting as tens of thousands of civilians in the besieged enclave near Damascus awaited urgently needed aid.

Heavy Syrian bombardment killed at least 77 civilians in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta on Monday, a war monitor said, as regime forces appeared to prepare for an imminent ground assault.

It is over a year since Bashar al-Assad's regime, with the help of Russian air strikes and barrel bombs, pounded the rebel-held east of Aleppo into submission.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may be preparing a chemical weapons attack that would result in the "mass murder" of civilians, the White House said Monday, warning the regime would pay a "heavy price" if it goes ahead.

Russia on Friday criticised the world's chemical weapons watchdog for not sending experts to the site of an alleged chemical attack in Syria, backing up President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

The regime of Bashar al-Assad bears 'primary responsibility' after a suspected chemical attack that killed at least 58 people in a rebel-held town in Syria, EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini said.

Britain repeated its call on Tuesday that President Bashar al-Assad should step aside, citing his "barbaric cruelty" toward Syria's people, as his forces stood poised to recapture Aleppo.

The White House on Saturday condemned the Assad regime's "defiance" of international norms after United Nations experts found the Syrian army had conducted three chemical weapons attacks against its own people in 2014 and 2015.

The 1979 Soviet intervention in Afghanistan was a "tragic mistake", Russia's Ambassador to Pakistan Alexey Y Dedov has said, but claimed that it's not similar to Russia's support for the "legitimate regime" of Syrian President Bashar al Assad.

President Bashar al-Assad said Wednesday that any transitional government in Syria should include both the regime and opposition, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged greater efforts to tackle the country's refugee crisis.

Syria's peace talks hit a fresh impasse over President Bashar al-Assad on Monday, as the head of Lebanon's Hezbollah vowed his Shiite movement would keep fighting alongside the regime until ISIS terrorists are defeated.

America's 2016 presidential candidates are split on promoting regime change in the Middle East, but not along the usual party lines.