Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

MSNBC’s Maddow, Nance Fret Trump Strike Will Cause Retaliation Against Innocent Syrians

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. MSNBC was in full spin mode Thursday night following the U.S. airstrikes in Syria, denouncing President Trump for an “awkward” speech and...

NBC Asks Assad If He’s Worried About Trump’s Lack of Experience, Muslim Ban Offending Him

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. NBC News foreign correspondent Bill Neely interviewed Syrian President and brutal dictator Bashar Al-Assad that began airing on Wednesday night and,...

Kerry Suggests Assad Could Play a Role in a ‘Managed Transition,’ End the Violence in Syria

The violence in Syria could end “within a very short period of time” and a “complete ceasefire” be put in place if President Bashar al-Assad simply announced that he does not have...

State Dep’t Defends Latest Statement Condemning Assad: ‘So Should We Just Say Nothing?’

Four years after President Obama first called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stand down, State Department spokesman John Kirby defended the issuing of another statement condemning his atrocities...

Assad Sees No ‘Lifeline’ From US

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an interview broadcast Tuesday played down a suggestion that Secretary of State John Kerry had recently offered him “a lifeline,” saying his regime’s...