Sentence examples for assad from inspiring English sources

So unable to hear pro Assad voices, but voices have appeared elsewhere on the BBC.

Perhaps even more worrying to Mr. Assad, his military has come to rely more heavily on equipment designed for a major battle with a foreign enemy, namely Israel, rather than a protracted civil conflict with his own people.

Iran is sending arms to Assad because they know his downfall would be a strategic defeat for them.

7 February: Britain and the US recall their ambassadors to Damascus in protest at the Assad regime's "murderous" behaviour towards its own civilians.

Throughout the rest of the year, and into early 2010, relations between Maliki and Assad remained toxic.

The appeasement of Assad, like other appeasements in history, will cause more nightmares.

And as we meet here, we again declare that the regime of Bashar al-Assad must come to an end so that the suffering of the Syrian people can stop and a new dawn can begin.

The mission – which has already seen OPCW inspectors come under sniper fire – was agreed as a means to avoid US-led militactiontion against Syria following a gas attack blamed on forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in August which killed more than 1,400 people.

In a speech mainly devoted to the Middle East, President Obama told the UN general assembly in New York that "the regime of Bashar al-Assad must come to an end so that the suffering of the Syrian people can stop, and a new dawn can begin".

He questions why the totalitarian state is often seen as a source of amusement, despite well-documented human rights abuses, and thinks westerners would not feel as comfortable poking fun at Syrian president Bashar al-Assad or laughing at the eccentricities of Islamic State (Isis).

A UN inquiry has found "massive evidence" that the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, is implicated in war crimes as the latest reported death toll in the country's civil war reached 126,000.