Assad must go. Three short words — one protracted policy debate. Back in the summer of 2011, those words, or their equivalent, became known among makers of U.S. Middle East policy as “the ...

Assad must go, Obama says. ... “The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way,” Obama said in a written statement.

Assad must go. Despite the attack on Syria, its allies Iran and Russia are very unlikely to heed President Trump’s call to stop backing Assad’s criminal actions.

Having already killed as many as 1,300 of his own people, Syrian President Bashar Assad is now promising constitutional reform and an end to bloodshed. In a speech Monday, he called for a ...

Bashar al-Assad must go, but regime change is not the answer. Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks to The Associated Press at the presidential palace in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016.

“The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way,” Obama said in a written statement.

State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said on Friday that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) cannot be defeated as long as Syrian President Bashar Assad remains in power. In an ...

While it’s still taboo to say it aloud, Assad’s departure hasn’t been a U.S. priority in a long time, and the Obama administration’s old mantra of “Assad must go” is now mostly hollow.

Biden was vice president when the Obama administration first declared in 2011 that “Assad must go.” Current administration officials don’t say that anymore, in part because Assad doesn’t ...

"We think Assad must go," Clinton told ABC today after attending the one-day Friends of the Syrian People conference in Istanbul. "The sooner the better for everyone concerned." ...

While it’s still taboo to say it aloud, Assad’s departure hasn’t been a U.S. priority in a long time, and the Obama administration’s old mantra of “Assad must go” is now mostly hollow.