David Lammy branded Bashar al-Assad “the rat of Damascus” after the deposed Syrian dictator fled to Russia. The foreign secretary launched his angry broadside in the House of Commons as he ...

Bashar al-Assad was branded the "rat of Damascus" after fleeing to Moscow as his brutal regime collapsed. Foreign Secretary David Lammy slammed Assad as a “monster” as the horrors of his ...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said the toppling of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was a "humiliation" not just for the deposed president himself, but for the Russian and Iranian regimes who ...

The rebel chief who led the overthrow of the longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad has been declared the head of government for a transitional period.

UK foreign secretary David Lammy has said the government has opened “diplomatic contact” with the Syrian rebels who ousted Bashar al-Assad’s regime last weekend. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS ...