Inside Story

Less pressure on Syria’s Assad?

Focus shifts from the Syrian regime as France vows to intensify air strikes on ISIL targets.

As police try to piece together how the Paris attacks were coordinated, the French air force has launched more air strikes on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and its Syrian headquarters, Raqqa.
 
ISIL claimed responsibility for the attacks on Friday which killed at least 129 people and injured hundreds more.

As the world’s attention shifts to ISIL from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is there less pressure on the Syrian regime?

Presenter: Nick Clark

Guests:

Lydia Wilson, Research Fellow at the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict at Oxford University.

Oubai Shahbandar, Director for Orient Media and former US Department of Defence Middle East analyst.

Ammar Waqqaf, Founder and Director of Gnosos.