NBC's Richard Engel answers your questions about Syria

The conflict in Syria took another bloody turn on Wednesday when the Syrian army led a deadly assault into southern Damascus, more than 17 months into the popular uprising.

Meantime, the international community continues to squabble over a solution to the conflict. On Wednesday Russia rebuffed President Barack Obama’s threat of unilateral action against Syria if the Assad regime used chemical or biological arms.  

Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent, has just returned from reporting in Syria for over three weeks. He answered reader questions about the ongoing conflict earlier today. Click below to replay the extremely informative chat.  

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Only 30 minutes of questions to the best reporter in the region. NBC, you need to do more of this! The quality of the questions coming from your readers provide more information than all the talking heads sitting in their comfortable studios. Get with it and try to think outside the box for a change instead of trying to fit everything into your "commercial" "social media" model!

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Reply#1 - Wed Aug 22, 2012 2:06 PM EDT
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Who gives a sh!t about Syria! Russia and China don't care so why should we?

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Reply#2 - Wed Aug 22, 2012 2:57 PM EDT
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Richard Engel's reporting, and NBC's for that matter, is so biased it is amazing. As usual the network almost never provides two sides of the conflict. Just the most graphic.

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Reply#3 - Wed Aug 22, 2012 3:34 PM EDT

Richard Engel's reporting, and NBC's for that matter, is so biased it is incredible. All I ever get from him is one side of the conflict, never a matchup with the counter-argument. One week he says there is no Islamic radical involvement, the next week he says there is and gives no explanation of why the change of mind. Sad for journalism. NBC sticks with the graphics instead of the facts. Seems most of the networks (except PBS) do the same. Sad for everybody.

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Reply#4 - Wed Aug 22, 2012 3:41 PM EDT

strange how only the Assad's supporters that spread false Assad's state news, think that this reporter is baised, anyone with commonsense knows that this reporter is one of the best around, giving accurate accounts of Assad's genocide to prevent syria people of winning their freedom, thinking only of himself, even his top generals and officials are leaving him in drones. Yet, Assad's supporters deny to the true facts b/c their hero is a mass murdering dictator. This reporter risked his life to show a true face of the conflict in syria.

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Reply#5 - Wed Aug 22, 2012 3:53 PM EDT
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Engel and NBC pays people for interviews that are anti-Assad. The worst news reporting ever ! Engel never shows or talks about the many beheadings by the rebels. Or killings of the Christians by the rebels. Or how Marie Colvin really died by a bomb of the rebels in order to blame Assad ! Shame on the ONE sided coverage !!!!

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Reply#7 - Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:39 PM EDT

Richard Alqaida Engel is one of these rebels , he is here to try to collect more support for his comrades , the only thing he ever reported is one side and that's is the thugs side , he never showed the beheading and the murdering of children's and destroying churches , hell he was there when they were throwing innocent people of the roof tops and then cutting their bodies , ask him , in the last report he had , he admitted that 262 Alqaida fighters on the borders of Turkey and Syria , Hell he should have known that long time ago , he was in the picture with the Alqaida fighters from Libya and again in Syria , him and Anderson Cooper should be ashamed of them self's , I guess they are on the Saudis and Qataris pay roll too , ask him how much the Saudis and Qataris paying for the Syrian soldiers and officials to defect , he should know all that info. the rebels are getting paid by these Alqaida countries and armed by Hillary and McCain , Lieberman , Graham and these hawks we got here , I know Mr. Engel seen what these thugs were doing and he knows who's responsible for all these massacres .

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Reply#8 - Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:55 PM EDT

Richard, the Syrian regim is in it is way out.. but the replacement power and those who fight for it is not really agree with the American politics in the region i.e the middle east, what do you think ? what is good for the United State in the Asaad regim changes!!!!

    Reply#9 - Wed Aug 22, 2012 8:10 PM EDT

    Way too many trolls not asking questions but spamming the Discussion. What I'm wondering is with the Golan Heights will it be the same as with Assad or will the new government attempt to come to an agreement with Israel?

      Reply#10 - Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:59 PM EDT

      Wake up folks clearly Richard is a propagandist for the military industrial complex that we were warned about by several former Presidents. Don't believe much from these "trusted" media sources. Just like "our" and I use "our" loosely, state department that supports Al Queda in these wars in the Middle East yet I thought was "our" enemy. If you have internet research these subjects for the info is out there, before it is no longer free. It saddens me to see so many people clearly not thinking about these subj. beyond what the media tells us. There is an agenda and it is not spreading this freedom and rights. "Our" state dept. is even setting up caliphates in the Middle East, they have been killing Christians and many other innocents. All that violence we have funded and condoned through silence can clearly come here to the former land of the free and home of the brave.

        Reply#11 - Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:34 AM EDT

        Richard, good reporting as always, and I am convinced that Iraq's WMDs are now Syria. Syriously!

          Reply#12 - Tue Aug 28, 2012 12:31 PM EDT
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