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Bashar al-Assad

Sharaa
Opinion

Syria: What should the UK do now?

Eve McQuillan
11 February, 2025

If politicians want to see a stable and secure Syria, they should use the UK’s levers and influence to give Syrians the best chance of building it.

George Galloway’s colonial politics deserve a crushing defeat in Manchester Gorton

Adam Barnett
21 March, 2017

Galloway’s record debunks his reputation as a friend of Asians, Arabs and Muslims

Rally for Aleppo: Show solidarity with Syrians still in Syria

Kellie Strom
22 October, 2016

People in Aleppo are suffering unthinkable violence

To enlist Sunnis to defeat ISIS we must commit to regime-change in Syria

Kyle Orton
3 July, 2015

The British plan to expand operations into Syria recognises that the centre of gravity for ISIS is there, not Iraq

Bashar al Assad: wear a good suit and deny everything

Kellie Strom
10 February, 2015

Assad has once again shown himself incapable of any recognition of reality

Raqqa: to appease Iran, Obama gives Assad’s air force a free pass for slaughter

Kellie Strom
1 December, 2014

The term appeasement is often overused, but that’s what Obama’s free pass to Assad’s air force in exchange for a hoped-for nuclear deal with Iran is.

Assad kills journalists too – the West must not work with his regime

Brad Davies
27 October, 2014

Assad is not an ally, he is a man whose stubborn determination to preserve his dictatorship has killed hundreds of thousands.

Syria air strikes: Bashar al-Assad is not the ‘lesser evil’, but a major part of the problem

James Bloodworth
27 September, 2014

A Western alliance with Assad would be based on two colossal misunderstandings of the situation in Syria.

The British government has completely failed Syria’s refugees

James Bloodworth
18 June, 2014

The scale of the tragedy requires a much greater response than the callous and disinterested one shown by the government.

Peter Oborne’s latest Syria dispatch is a disgrace

James Snell
17 April, 2014

Peter Oborne’s latest dispatch reads like George Bernard Shaw on Stalin’s Russia.

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