How to pronounce “assad” in English

Assad's not going anywhere.

Assad has successfully destroyed many of the moderate groups, leaving not only extremist groups on the ground,

that Assad's actually not a bad guy because all this stuff coming from the White Helmets and the UK government and where else is actually all fake.

And Assad knew that that would be absolutely irresistible to Western powers who want to arm them and give them the capability

The Assad regime has used chemical weapons on its own people in a suburb of Damascus, as well as other places.

The Assad regime doesn't invite journalists in unless it's got something that wants to show them, which it did just before the fall of Aleppo.

And Assad was so worried at that point that this might really happen, and that this would be the end of him,

So Assad continues to buy oil from his own oil wells through ISIS, and then they just take a rake off.

that Assad was willing to use-- and I was pretty sure, from the beginning, he would do whatever it took to beat back the demonstrators

And it was clear-- Assad kept coming up in my mind as I read about this sultan who was so extreme and violent.

That is not Assad.

They're not with Assad, and they're not with ISIS, obviously.

Because of course Assad has been very, very careful to make sure that journalists don't get in to Syria.

Just like in the Assad regime, the corrupt and malfunctioning bureaucracy of the security state, of the torture

But when Assad consolidated the Alawite minority, to go after the majority of the population, which are Sunnis,

Hafez al-Assad, the president of Syria from the 1970s, came from peasant stock.

so that we can salute Hafez Al-assad, our president forever, because we were all his army.

on a wall-- down with Assad, just something like that-- completely OK with detaining 15-year-old boys and torturing them to death.

And the Russian Air Force and Assad's air force was bombing Manbij pretty regularly.

Now you mentioned in the documentary Assad kind of jump started some of the radicalism inside of Syria when he released certain people.

There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that Assad is actually supported by the majority, not least because there's never been a democratic process in Syria.

There will not be democracy until Assad steps down.

They've just been pulverized by the Assad government for having the temerity to stand up against him and to ask for freedoms and for reforms

So when you're looking at the Assad, the last place of the world you want to challenge him is the field of military.

the United Kingdom they were British Pakistanis Assad sawa ahmed ali khan and

helped the opposition to President Assad in Damascus that somebody else would.

uniform, Wasim al-Assad was convicted of crimes that included multiple murders and torture.

gather militias to fight on behalf of President Assad eastern Gouta which is on the outskirts of Damascus which is

forgiving of some of the excesses because Bashar Assad basically cut and ran.

And of course we know that however many stories we tell Assad, he doesn't change his views.

Yeah, so Assad knows that Western forces have a sort of soft spot for democratic movements, because we're democracies.

But it is a grotesquery to claim that Assad somehow represents the democratic wishes of the Syrian people.

All I was referring to was surveys where Assad was found to be popular among Syrians who are in Syria.

of the Syrian population who are currently stuck between Assad and ISIS, who of course never have fought each other.

It's people like the cousin of Bashar al-Assad evading sanctions by using those companies.

So it would be nice to say remove the Assad regime, put him on trial for war crimes, but what we may be leaving behind would be something considerably worse.

That it would rise up not only in Syria against President Assad as part of the Arab Spring but it would also rise up in Iraq, where the Shia government was making it very difficult

Our Arab affairs analyst Sebastian Usher told me more about Wasim al-Assad.

Of course Assad knows that.

Because the Syrian army, President Assad's army, simply withdrew, just left the vacuum there.

Of course, it was possible to fight Assad by nonviolent means.

You want to really challenge Assad, you will look at the tactics of "noncooperation."

or students, before the opposition rose up against Assad's brutal crackdown-- that we would get to know who the likely hard men,

But what I know now is that what I worried about has happened-- that Assad has not moderated his behavior.

philosophies of commonality everybody doing it together they call it Coleman al-assad or Takeo which means good work these are sort of concepts of

and a cousin of the deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has been sentenced to death for a series

that what they were experiencing with their-- in their contention with the regime of Bashar al-Assad was indeed a civil war.

But from what I understand, of course you've got the Assad regime.

was protesting not only the deep, deep corruption of the Assad regime but also the just unspeakable brutality