BASHAR AL-ASSAD: (Through Translator) The conflict is between the nation and its enemies, between the people and the criminal killers. MCEVERS: That's President Assad speaking through an interpreter.

In only his third public speech since Syria's uprising erupted in March, President Bashar al-Assad declared on Monday that "saboteurs" were hijacking the Syrian people's legitimate demands for ...

In his first speech to a major regional summit in more than a decade, Syria’s Bashar al-Assad on Friday told fellow Arab states that a new world order called for a rearranging of international ...

Syria's Assad Sworn in, Gives Defiant Speech Published Jul 16, 2014 at 5:08 AM EDT Updated Feb 22, 2016 at 2:16 PM EST Syria's President Bashar al-Assad answers journalists after a meeting in ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made a rare public speech Sunday-- his first since June of last year -- and, not surprisingly, he did not step down. This did not please very many people.

A defiant Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called on Sunday for national mobilisation in a “war to defend the nation”, describing rebels fighting him as terrorists and agents of foreign powers ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's promise on Monday to prepare a range of political reforms offers no prospect of appeasing the three-month-old uprising against his autocratic rule.