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Bashar al-Assad’s Interview with Europe1 and TF1

by Bashar al-Assad

Bashar al-Assad's Interview with Europe1 and TF1

Damascus (Syria) | 24 March 2017
February 16th, 2017
Fabien Namias: Good morning Mr President.
Bashar al-Assad: Good morning.
Fabien Namias: A very simple question to begin with. Two months after the fall of Aleppo, can you say that you have won the war?
Bashar al-Assad: No. I do not think that we can talk about having won the war before beating all the terrorists throughout Syria. It is only an important step on the path that is going to lead us to beat and eliminate terrorism from our country; but I think that this (...)

Message from President Assad

by Bashar al-Assad

Message from President Assad

Damascus (Syria) | 14 December 2016
Time and History are closely linked but people will not remember Time. What they will remember is History. And Time is only transformed into History when great changes in the world decide it to be so.
For this reason, we speak of before and after the birth of Lord Jesus; of before and after the Revelation that will come to our prophet, the Messenger of God (Mohammed); because History after these events, is no longer what it once was.
The same is true when we speak of global politics (...)

INTERVIEW WITH THE SYRIAN PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD

“Syria is paying the price of its independence”

by Bashar al-Assad

“Syria is paying the price of its independence”

Damascus (Syria) | 2 November 2016
Interviewed by the Cuban journalist Roberto Garcia on behalf of the agency Prensa Latina, the President of the Syrian Arab Republic highlights the cohesion between the different groups within Syrian society and popular participation in defense of the Nation. After noting that preserving national independence was a fundamental factor in the struggle that today is liberating the Syrian state, Bashar al-Assad recognizes the historical similarity between this battle and the recent struggles between Latin American nations.

Interview of Bashar al-Assad with Foreign Affairs

by Bashar al-Assad

Interview of Bashar al-Assad with Foreign Affairs

Damascus (Syria) | 27 January 2015
Foreign Affairs: I would like to start by asking you about the war. It has now been going on for almost four years, and you know the statistics: more than 200,000 people have been killed, a million wounded, and more than three million Syrians have fled the country, according to the UN. Your forces have also suffered heavy casualties. The war cannot go on forever. How do you see the war ending?
Bashar al-Assad: All wars anywhere in the world have ended with a political solution, because war (...)

Bashar el-Assad interview with Paris-Match

by Bashar al-Assad

Bashar el-Assad interview with Paris-Match

Damascus (Syria) | 3 December 2014
Paris Match: Mr. President, three years into this war, and considering how things have turned out, do you regret that you haven’t managed things differently at the beginning, with the appearance of the first signs of the revolution in March 2011? Do you feel that you are responsible for what happened?
Bashar el Assad: Even in the first days of the events, there were martyrs from the army and the police; so, since the first days of this crisis we have been facing terrorism. It is true that (...)

The Metamorphosis of Bashar al-Assad

by Thierry Meyssan

The Metamorphosis of Bashar al-Assad

Damascus (Syria) | 28 July 2014
Since the retirement of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez’s death and the interdiction of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to nominate a candidate in Iran’s presidential election, the revolutionary movement is absent a world leader. Or rather, was absent a world leader. However, the incredible tenacity and composure of Bashar al-Assad has made him the only chief executive in the world surviving a concerted attack by a vast colonial coalition led by Washington and beening largely re-elected by his people.

Inaugural speech of President al-Assad

by Bashar al-Assad

Inaugural speech of President al-Assad

Damascus (Syria) | 16 July 2014
Honourable Syrians,
Free Syrian Revolutionaries,
Three years and four months have passed since some declared, on your behalf: “The People want.” Yes, The People wanted…. The People decided… The People took action.
A few years ago, some called for freedom – your response was to remain free in the age of subservience, to be masters in the age of slaves. They patronised you with their calls for democracy – your response was to show your will in the most democratic manner possible and refuse (...)

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President Assad in Maaloula

by Wassim Raad

President Assad in Maaloula

Beirut (Lebanon) | 22 April 2014
During his trip to Maaloula, President Bashar al-Assad has attracted the anguish of his security service by offering a walkabout.
President Assad in Maaloula: The Syrian state confirms its supremacy
By Ghaleb Kandil
A week after its liberation from extremist groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda, President Bashar al-Assad visited the historic town of Maaloula, where he celebrated Easter with residents, full of joy and sadness because at the destructions provoked by the terrorists. While (...)

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Bashar al-Assad wins the battle of communication

by Wassim Raad

Bashar al-Assad wins the battle of communication

Beirut (Lebanon) | 24 September 2013
Bashar al-Assad wins the battle of communication
By Ghaleb Kandil
U.S. and European media have recently published dozens of articles on Syria, citing issues they didn’t evoke for more than a year. Images of the atrocities committed by the rebels have been published and photos on beheadings, cannibalism and other barbaric acts perpetrated by pseudo- revolutionaries have emerged. This growing media awareness coincided with threats of military aggression against Syria, launched by President (...)

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Bashar al-Assad has broken the will of Obama

by Wassim Raad

Bashar al-Assad has broken the will of Obama

Beirut (Lebanon) | 2 September 2013
Bashar al-Assad has broken the will of Obama
By Ghaleb Kandil
The resistance of Syria against the colonial war, the last two and a half yers, opened the way for new international balances that could rid the world of the American-Zionist hegemony. Building on this strength, partners and friends of Syria began to lay the foundations of new relations on the regional and international scenes, a quarter century after the transformation of the United Nations to an American colony.
The project (...)

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The American defeat against Bashar al-Assad

The American defeat against Bashar al-Assad

Beirut (Lebanon) | 18 February 2013
Kerry and Al Assad, 7 years ago The American defeat against Bashar al-Assad
By Ghaleb Kandil
Last week was marked by a series of clues illustrating a fundamental change in the American political and media discourse on Syria as a prelude to a frank admission of the failure of Washington’s plan in this country, which should appear after the Russian-American summit.
Thus, Washington has knowingly made that President Barack Obama rejected a plan of arming Syrian rebels presented by Hillary (...)

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The American War against the Syrian state without prospects

The American War against the Syrian state without prospects

Beirut (Lebanon) | 14 January 2013
The American War against the Syrian state without prospects
By Ghaleb Kandil
From what has came out from the tripartite meeting in Geneva between the Russians, the Americans and the international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, Friday, January 11, it is clear that the refusal of the United States to recognize the failure of the universal war that they launched against Syria and its president Bashar al-Assad, is a major obstacle that prevents a political solution to the Syrian crisis.
It is (...)

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President Assad propose a Syrian and a sovereign plan... to those who want to listen

President Assad propose a Syrian and a sovereign plan... to those who want to listen

Beirut (Lebanon) | 7 January 2013
President Assad propose a Syrian and a sovereign plan... to those who want to listen
By Pierre Khalaf
The timing chosen by President Bashar al-Assad to propose a plan to end the crisis is not trivial. It coincided, first, with successive defeats for the armed groups, which destroyed the illusions of the United States and its European and Arab auxiliaries, distorting all their calculations, and then with information about a Russian-American meeting, mid-January, to discuss the results of (...)

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Syria drawing up the new equations

Syria drawing up the new equations

Beirut (Lebanon) | 1 January 2013
By Ghaleb Kandil
Syria drawing up the new equations
The world and the region are turning the page of a year of consecutive disappointments which affected the global war on Syria throughout 2012. Indeed, all the illusions of the colonial Zionist alliance and the collaborating Arab and regional governments regarding the imminent fall of the Syrian national state, which played a pivotal role in the formation and command of the resistance axis that defeated the major American, Western and (...)

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This is why Bashar al-Assad’s Syria will not fall

by Wassim Raad

This is why Bashar al-Assad's Syria will not fall

Beirut (Lebanon) | 26 August 2012
Arab affairs
Editorial: This is why Bashar al-Assad’s Syria will not fall
by Ghaleb Kandil
The recent developments in Syria revealed a series of important signs which will have decisive repercussions over the course of the global war led by the United States to destroy this country. Unlike the information and impressions of American strategists and their European and Arab accomplices - as conveyed by hundreds of media outlets engaged in the battle - the death squads, mercenaries and (...)

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Syria rising and resisting despite the wounds.

by Pierre Khalaf

Syria rising and resisting despite the wounds.

Beirut (Lebanon) | 30 July 2012
Syria rising and resisting despite the wounds.
The Syrian national state was able to topple the most dangerous link in the global war led by the United States. The field and political facts thus reveal that the Syrian state has regained control on all levels, which is imposing new equations and forcing the American and Israeli decision-making centers that are managing the war on Syria to redo their calculations.
Firstly, the Syrian Arab forces, while enjoying clear support and backing (...)

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The upcoming Syrian-Arab spring

by Wassim Raad

The upcoming Syrian-Arab spring

Beirut (Lebanon) | 10 October 2011
Bashar el-Assad host the delegation of the Council of the Russian Federation (Damascus, 18 September 2011). © SANA Editorial
Erdogan’s adventure and the calculation of the cost
Following the failure which affected the Western alliance at the Security Council due to the Chinese-Russian veto, the American administration publicly assigned the mission of pressuring Syria to Erdogan’s government. Numerous questions are surrounding the Turkish authorities’ hostile steps against Syria during the (...)

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Sarkozy repeating Chirac’s mistakes in Syria

Sarkozy repeating Chirac's mistakes in Syria

Beirut (Lebanon) | 17 May 2011
Arab affairs
Editorial: A mark of shame for the ‘International Community’
In the Arab East, the expression ‘international community’ has become a synonym for all sorts of international crimes targeting the region, its wealth and the security of its people. This expression which was spread by the North Americans –especially following the collapse on the Soviet Union - conveys the new international order that is subjected to the United States’ hegemony, and through which dozens of international (...)

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Al-Assad: the Arab figure for the year 2010

Al-Assad: the Arab figure for the year 2010

Beirut (Lebanon) | 3 January 2011
Have the positions of Western influence in the region started crumbling? / Lieberman considers Fatah’s government as illegitimate / Baghdad will host the Arab Summit / Obama issued a decree appointing an ambassador in Syria / Discovery of gas in Israel / Issuance of the sentence against former israeli President / The year of the fall of the illusions surrounding Obama.

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Talk between Bashar el-Assad and Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris

Talk between Bashar el-Assad and Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris

Beirut (Lebanon) | 13 December 2010
Al-Assad and the East’s message of dialogue from Paris / An Israeli military plan in the West Bank / The concern: an Iranian retaliation / Carmel fire exposes Israel’s readiness in case of emergency / The Iron Dome in Israel / The politicization of the special tribunal for Lebanon / Wikileaks: The shuddering of the empire / Iranian nuclear file in Geneva / The unbalanced relationship between Israel and the US / The Saudi foreign minister requests US support to destroy Hezbollah / Saudi Arabia biggest source of funding for armed Islamic groups / Qatar used Al-Jazeera channel for tradeoffs at the level of foreign policy / Secret cable confirms Mubarak’s candidacy in the next presidential elections.

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Inaugural speech of President al-Assad

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Syria rising and resisting despite the wounds.
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Interview of Bashar al-Assad with Foreign Affairs

Bashar al-Assad has broken the will of Obama
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President Assad in Maaloula
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President Assad propose a Syrian and a sovereign plan... to those who want to listen
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Sarkozy repeating Chirac’s mistakes in Syria
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