Bashar Assad

What did Saudi Arabia say to Assad?

SaudiArabia has said, over and over again, that its religious and moral duty behooves it to take the stand it has adopted today against the Assad regime, and this is in order to protect the unarmed Syrians, and to protect Syria itself from who knows what awaits it, in light […]

The Syrian opposition’s great mistake

By GWYNNE DYER ARABNEWS Published: Feb 12, 2012 AS THE Syrian opposition abandons non-violent protest for armed resistance, many people think this means that President Bashar Assad and his Baathist regime are in even deeper trouble than before. On the contrary, it means that Assad and the Baathists are winning. […]

Syria’s decisive moment

By HASSAN BARARI, ARABNEWS Unfortunately, while the Arabs agree on the need to see the back of the regime, they have not yet done their homework as to what should be done once the regime is on the run. It is hard to avoid the feeling that Syria’s decisive moment […]