Assad returns to public eye with ally Iran

In this photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Saeed Jalili, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday. The meeting with the Iranian senior envoy was Assad’s first appearance on sta...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad made his first appearance on state TV in nearly three weeks Tuesday in a show of solidarity with a senior Iranian envoy, even as the U.S. urged stepped up international planning for the regime’s collapse.

The visit to Damascus by ...

Published: 08/08/2012