The rhetorical escalation was backed by new U.S. sanctions designed to undermine Assad’s ability to finance his military operation. “The future of Syria must be determined by its people ...

and the Obama administration’s old mantra of “Assad must go” is now mostly hollow. Gordon, however, takes Washington’s evolution on Assad even farther: He advocates outright ditching ...

They feel that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has mostly defeated the various rebel factions, so it makes sense to patch things up with Assad, remove sanctions on his regime, and wash our hands ...

"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." But she added that ...

They are right on both counts. Alaa Tello, a Syrian American from Massachusetts, said she told Biden, “Assad must go.” Biden then responded, according to Tello, “I agree.” That contrasts ...

Syria’s civil war has left at least 400,000 people dead and driven more than 11 million people from their homes, and the United States has been calling for Assad to go nearly from the start of ...

The drug brought in billions for Assad. But Syria cannot rebuild as a narco-state, and containing Captagon is a national security and public safety must ... We can’t go back and intervene ...

the Assad regime’s representatives at the United Nations did not submit any request for aid, while demanding that any aid delivered to opposition-controlled areas must go through Damascus ...

The drug brought in billions for Assad. But Syria cannot rebuild as a narco-state, and containing Captagon is a national security and public safety must ... We can’t go back and intervene ...