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...A US court has found the Syrian government liable for civil damages over the targeted killing of journalist Marie Colvin, the first time a court has ruled on human rights violations committed by Bashar al-Assad...
...There, she interviewed people in the “widows’ basement”, where women and children were sheltering under artillery fire from the Fourth Division of Bashar al-Assad’s Republican Guard....
...(NYT, FT) Assad unrepentant Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has told journalists that the bombing of East Aleppo, which the UN has said may constitute a war crime, was justified....
...His clients have included Qatar, Libya under the rule of Muammer Gaddafi and Syria under President Bashar al-Assad....
...(FT) A teenager's jihadi journey How a Belgian teenager went from moonwalking on a Michael Jackson reality TV show to enlisting in the fight against Bashar al-Assad in Syria....
...(FT) A teenager’s jihadi journey How a Belgian teenager went from moonwalking on a Michael Jackson reality TV show to enlisting in the fight against Bashar al-Assad in Syria....
...Glenda Jackson, a Labour MP, asked Mr Cameron in the Commons why he thought that one-off strikes would end the slaughter in Syria given that more than 100,000 deaths had not prompted President Assad to end...
...A message was read out from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad....
...Without that, the chances of the new capital deal working are about the same as Syrian president Bashar al-Assad observing non-violence day with doves instead of fighter jets....
...More Syrian envoys were kicked out of western capitals, more financial sanctions slapped on the regime in Damascus, and more furious calls for a political transition from Bashar al-Assad issued....
...The Makhloufs are first cousins of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The EU’s anti-fraud office, OLAF, is investigating whether the transaction broke European and US sanctions....
...One move could be to repeal Congress’s Jackson-Vanik amendment, an old relic of the cold war and one that hampers trade with Russia to this day....
...But in fact, it appears to be posing one of the greatest challenges yet to the regime of Bashar al-Assad....
...Mohamad is a rare and versatile intellectual voice in the archipelago, as likely to write about Michael Jackson as Guantanamo Bay and Turgenev....
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