Syria

ADO-World.org By David Lerman Bloomberg Aug 12, 2011 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today urged nations doing business with Syria to “get on the right side of history” by cutting off trade and arms sales to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Citing a “crescendo of condemnation” against Assad’s repression …

ADO-World.org August 11, 2011 WASHINGTON (AFP): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday urged China, India and Russia to step up pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to curtail his government’s brutal crackdown on protests. In an interview with CBS News, Clinton suggested that China and India impose energy …

ADO-World.org August 11, 2011 India News – New Delhi : With the crisis in Syria worsening by the day, India, Brazil and South Africa have mounted pressure on Damascus to accelerate political reforms and called for ensuring a credible judicial probe into the violence that killed hundreds of civilians. An …

ADO-World.org August 11, 2011 euronews – New US sanctions and other international pressure on Syria do not seem to have deterred President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. While the latest amateur videos, which are hard to independently verify, appear to show the army in action, human rights campaigners say at least five …

ADO-World.org August 10, 2011 WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Syria’s largest commercial bank and largest mobile phone operator, stepping up the pressure on the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The moves targeting the state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria, its Lebanon-based subsidiary and telecoms company …

ADO-World.org August 09, 2011 The Obama administration is planning to explicitly call for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down in coming days, two administration officials told FoxNews. The State Department signaled for the first time that American efforts to engage the Syrian government are finally over. The White House …

ADO-World.org By Judson Berger Fox News August 03, 2011 America’s ambassador to Syria had some important things to say at his confirmation hearing Tuesday about the regime’s brutal crackdown on protesters. Unfortunately for him, only one senator stuck around to talk about it. Robert Ford, who is President Obama’s man …

ADO-World.org By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press 2011-AUG-04 The U.N. Security Council condemned Syrian authorities on Wednesday for attacking civilians and committing widespread human rights violations. After more than three months of deadlock over the escalating violence in Syria, the council adopted a presidential statement criticizing the crackdown by Syrian …

Meeting With Syrian Activists   Press Statement Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC August 2, 2011 I met today with a small group of U.S.-based Syrian activists and members of the Syrian-American community to express our profound sympathy for all Syrian victims of the Assad regime’s abuse of …

ADO-World.org Cecily Hilleary Voice of America – Washington July 15, 2011 This week’s attack on the U.S. and French embassies in Damascus was by no means the first, according to Ted Kattouf, President and CEO of the Washington-based nonprofit Amideast and former U.S. Ambassador to Syria (2001-2003).  Back in 1998, …