A community portal about Syria with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Syria is officially the Syrian Arab Republic. Itis a country in the Middle East, bordering Lebanon to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to...
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A community portal about Syria with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Syria is officially the Syrian Arab Republic. Itis a country in the Middle East, bordering Lebanon to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north. The modern state of Syria attained independence from the French mandate of Syria in 1936, but can trace its historical roots to the fourth millenium BC; its capital city, Damascus, was the seat of the Umayyad Empire and a provincial capital of the Mameluke Empire.
A little story that slipped through the net in many papers is the report that for the first time in five years a senior Syrian diplomat is visiting Washington, DC for talks with the Obama Administration. Syria has a reasonable relationship with Iran, both have been pariah states to the US for yeas, and so have banded together for support. However, if the Obama regime can rebuild the bridges with Syria and bring them back in from the cold, it opens a back door to negotiations with Iran... Read Full Story
A handout photograph supplied to EPA by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) shows an Israeli Merkava tank putting out a thick white smoke screen during a training exercise on the Golan Heights on 23 March 2008. Israeli President Shimon Peres in a meeting with US Vice president Dick Cheney dismissed recent Syrian peace talk initiatives saying Israel would not consider giving up the Golan Heights to Syria to then have Damascus and Tehran increase their dominance in Lebanon. 'Israel is not willing... Read Full Story
The Prime Minister's Office, in a dramatic announcement, issued a statement saying that Israel and Syria have begun indirect peace talks. What does Israel give up? Israeli, Syrian leaders briefed on 2-year contacts; draft includes Israeli withdrawal to 1967 line. All of the Golan Heights. More Of course this was announced now to get the spotlight off of Olmert's criminal investigations.
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Golan will become terror base, home to a million Syrians in wake of Israeli pullout. About a million Syrian residents will be settled in the Golan immediately. The Syrians are already arguing that about 100,000 Syrians fled the Golan in 1967. If we count them and their descendents, we’re already at 500,000. You want proof? Even though the Golan Heights are not in Syrian hands, a presidential decree has already been issued announcing that any Syrian resident who moves to the Golan will... Read Full Story
Farid Ghadry (on the left), leader of Syria's exiled Reform Party, attends a meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting in the Knesset (Parliament) in Jerusalem on 11 June 2007, before a large map of the Middle East. Ghadry warned Israel not to enter into negotiations with Syrian President Bashir Assad at this time, but somehow to negotiate with the Syrian people (photo: Epa/Ansa). The Syriacomment Joshua Landis' blog published the following post on the 25th of March 2007... Read Full Story
Wish of the day: to climb the syrian side of Jabal ash-Shaykh (Mount Hermon) and watch the Beqaa valley, the Tiberias Lake and Damascus from the same position. UNDOF (United Nations Disengagement Observer Force) was established in 1974 following the agreed disengagement of the Israeli and Syrian forces on the Golan Heights. UNDOF continues to supervise the implementation of the agreement and maintain ceasefire. (photo: UNDOF Hermon Hotel base on Mount Hermon covered in snow. Golan Heights... Read Full Story
A senior Russian official confirms inking a contract for supplying Syria with the advanced MiG-31 fighter jets but adds that the deal has not yet been sealed.
“A few years ago, two contracts were signed, one for (supplying Syria with) MiG-29s and one for MiG-31s,” the daily Kommersant quoted Alexei Fyodorov, the head of Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation, as saying on Thursday.
“Consultations on this contract are now ongoing, so its future is unclear,” Fyodorov emphasized... Read Full Story
Here the videos made by Ynet reporter Ron Ben-Yishai. He has visited Syria's main cities and tourist sites, spoken with students, taxi drivers about Israel. From Aleppo to Dayr az-Zor through Damascus and alleged missiles stores. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3456991,00.html He has visited Syria during High Holydays and spent Yom Kippur at Damascus synagogue. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3456146,00.html Read Full Story
The Russian daily newspaper Kommersant has reported that Russia is expected to provide Syria with powerful MiG fighter jets but has not yet begun delivering the planes. The paper cited the head of Russia's state-run United Aircraft Corporation, Alexei Fyodorov, as saying that a 2007 contract to sell MiG-31E interceptor fighters to Syria has not entered into force, but that a different contract to provide Syria with MiG-29M fighters is indeed being implemented. According to the paper, Russian... Read Full Story
Syria on Sunday denied reports that Russia had decided to call off the sale to Damascus of eight MiG-31 planes in the wake of pressure from Israel. "This is part of attempts to undermine the friendly relations and cooperation between Syria and Russia," an official Syrian statement quoted Reuters said. According to a report in the Kommersant newspaper, Russia was supposed to sell eight MiG-31s to Syria. The $500m. deal was signed in early 2007, but work on the project was halted in April... Read Full Story
