Paris to revoke Assad’s Legion of Honor, after bombing ‘tyrant’ holding France’s highest decoration

Following its missile strike on Syria, Paris suddenly realized that Bashar Assad is still holding the country’s most prestigious Legion of Honor decoration, received in 2001 from Jacques Chirac, local media has revealed. France has initiated a procedure to revoke the Legion of Honor awarded to Syrian President Bashar Assad, an official of the French […]

US-backed Syrian fighters refuse to let Assad’s forces cross Euphrates as both sides surround ISIS’ last foothold

Thomson Reuters U.S.-backed Syrian militias will not let government forces cross the Euphrates River in their bid to recover eastern Syria, setting a red line for President Bashar al-Assad as both sides converge on Islamic State in Deir al-Zor, their commander said. Militia commander Abu Khawla said a civilian administration would be set up to […]

US accuses Moscow of ‘sowing doubt’ over narrative of Assad’s culpability in chemical attack

While Moscow continues to call for a thorough and independent probe into the Syrian chemical attack, the White House has “declassified” an open-sourced report that pins the blame on Damascus while accusing Moscow of “sowing doubt” over the US narrative. “We have gone back through and looked at all the evidence we can and it’s […]

Syrian people should decide Assad’s fate, Tillerson tells US media

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said the Syrian crisis can only be solved through a political process, claiming it’s not regime change but the defeat of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group that Washington is seeking in Syria. “Our strategy in Syria, our priority is first to defeat ISIS,” the US […]