In a speech from the White House on Sunday afternoon ... giving instructions to transfer power peacefully." Assad agreed to give up power as the result of negotiations between him and the rebels ...

Ayatollah Khamenei will deliver the speech in a meeting with hundreds of people on Wednesday ... The Syrian government fell early Sunday in a stunning end to President Bashar al-Assad’s 24-year rule ...

and the help that some others are giving to them, they thought that the resistance was over," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech. "They are completely wrong." On December 8 ...