In a speech from the White House on Sunday afternoon ... Valery Sharifulin/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Assad agreed to give up power as the result of negotiations between him and the rebels ...
The night before, Assad had even asked his close adviser Buthaina Shaaban to prepare a speech -- which the ousted leader never gave -- before flying from Damascus airport to Russia's Hmeimim air base ...
“At long last, the Assad regime has fallen,” President Joe Biden said in a speech from the Roosevelt Room of the White House. The president’s remarks on Sunday followed the news that ...
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An expected speech from the president ... Fuel shortages forced ordinary Syrians to give up their cars and travel by bicycle. His government starved of funds, Assad demobilized some of his army ...
We declare the city of Damascus free from the tyrant Bashar al-Assad,” a rebel leader said on WhatsApp. “To the displaced people around the world, Free Syria awaits you.” ...
However, Assad in a speech Saturday vowed to defend the country's "stability and territorial integrity." Syria's civil war grew out of Assad's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011.
Assad and a number of participants in the armed conflict on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic, he decided to resign from the presidency and left the country, giving instructions for a ...
In his speech Wednesday, Khamenei spoke for roughly ... that ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, giving Ankara outsize influence in the new political order. That has unsettled Syria’s ...