Bashar alassad
After killing, defiant Syria town determined to protest on
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Assad said in the same interview on Sunday that Syria would not accept any Western money to help rebuild the country, which is shattered after seven years of war.
Assad said in the same interview on Sunday that Syria would not accept any Western money to help rebuild the country.
Russian lawmakers met with Assad after the United States, France and Britain launched missile strikes on Syria in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack a week ago.
The area is 40km outside Damascus and separate from eastern Ghouta, which is directly adjacent to the capital and where Russian-backed government forces have wiped out rebel resistance.
Russia has rejected accusations that Assad used chemical arms against his own people and has said it will not cut its ties with Assad.
Although the uprising in Syria marks its sixth anniversary this month, the Syrian war has far from run its course.
It is estimated that more than 300,000 people have been killed since fighting began in 2011.
Rescue workers said that Syria’s military backed by Russian warplanes had killed more than 150 people.
Heavy aerial bombardment of eastern Aleppo resumed on Tuesday after a pause of several days.
The offer of amnesty follows two weeks of the heaviest bombardment of the five-and-a-half-year civil war.
This is the biggest ground assault in a massive new campaign that has destroyed a US-backed ceasefire.
The ceasefire is due to take effect at sundown and includes improved humanitarian aid access.
Russia has been a major ally of Bashar al-Assad while the US has called for him to leave power.
One US official told Reuters the White House remained opposed to deeper American military involvement.
Combatants must say if they will agree to the “cessation of hostilities” in the five-year war by noon Friday.
Assad ridiculed Cameron's assertion that there are 70,000 Western-backed opposition fighters in Syria.
Joshua W Walker looks at the tension between Turkey and Russia over conflicting Syria policies.