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.
In an arbitrary act that is probably the first of its kind in human history, the Israeli occupation forces placed one-year-old baby Fahd Shuqeir under house arrest for two years simply for being born in Damascus. This act is one of the many similar actions that aim at oppressing the people of the occupied Syrian Golan's villages and towns. The Israeli occupation used these tactics since the first day of Golan's occupation in 1967 in an attempt to evict the people of these villages and seizes... Read Full Story
A Druze of Syrian origin from the Golan Heights, occupied by the Jewish state in 1967, has been released after some three years in prison in Israel, within the exchange of prisoners between the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah and Israel, Syrian official news agency SANA reported today. The news agency added that Nadim Qudmani (نديم فريد القضماني), arrested in 2005 together with two other Druzes from Golan, was sentenced to nine years in prison because he was found guilty, according to SANA... Read Full Story
The Economist reports: Did Israeli warplanes fly into Syrian airspace? Syria's claim that its air defence units engaged Israeli warplanes that had violated the country's airspace comes after several months of conflicting commentaries from Israel on both the risks of war between the two long-time adversaries and the possibilities of peace. Syrian officials have been less voluble on the subject, although the president, Bashar al-Assad, recently offered some fresh observations on how peace talks... Read Full Story
(IRIN) - Some 580 women living in the occupied Golan region are disconnected from their families in Syria as they are not allowed to cross from the occupied zone to their homeland, a new women's organisation has said. "All the Arabs of the Golan have some family in Syria. But these women are disconnected from their mothers, fathers and brothers and sisters," said Souha Munder, a lawyer who works with the new group, which calls itself The Women of the Occupied Arab-Syrian Golan. The Israeli... Read Full Story
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Report handed to UN fact-finding mission says 'Syrian citizens' conditions worsening day by day due to Israeli practices which displace them, confiscate their farms and expand settlements', adding 'citizens still exposed to explosion of mines planted by Israeli occupation forces'
Syria has called on the United Nations to exert pressure on Israel to "stop its continued practices and aggressions against Syrian citizens in the occupied Syrian Golan who suffer from the Israeli daily... Read Full Story
Despite the economic sanctions imposed by the United States against Damascus for almost four years, but thanks to the weak dollar and to indirect trade transactions, the U.S. exports to Syria continue to grow, independent Syrian and pan-Arab media sources reported. Quoting sources of the Damascus Chamber of Commerce, pan-Arab daily al-Quds al-Arabi, published in London, said that "trade between the USA and Syria saw a considerable rise in the past fifteen months, with an average rise from 20... Read Full Story
Naharnet reports: Lebanon's leading columnist Ghassan Tueni called Monday for the election of a president along the lines of "national" consensus and "international blessing" to safeguard the country against the "ghost" of a predicted regional war. "Speed up dialogue …to replace mere talk leading to war," Tueni headlined his editorial front-paged by the daily an-Nahar. Journalist-MP Tueini noted that Damascus visitors as well as objective observers of the Syrian situation note that recent... Read Full Story
A Syrian delegation visited a Russian arms plant on Tuesday to inspect short-range Pantsyr air defence systems that Russia has agreed to sell to Damascus, the manufacturer said. The United States has accused Syria of sponsoring terrorism, a charge Damascus denies. Israel opposes Russian arms sales to Syria, saying it fears they could fall into the hands of militia groups and tilt the regional balance of power. A Syrian delegation on Tuesday visited the KBP Instrument Design Bureau, which... Read Full Story
Berlin, 30 September - Major General Wolfgang Jilke, the Austrian commander of the UN Disengagement and Observer Force (UNDOF) deployed since 1974 on the the Golan Heights, voiced out his concerns over the continuing military build-up on the Israeli side of the 75-km long buffer zone. In an interview released to the German Der Spiegel, Jilke alerted public opinion to the danger of clashes breaking out due to Israel’s unpreceented concentration of troops and military build-up in the Golan... Read Full Story
A "dirty hand" offered to international media "the stunt" of the reported alledged admission by Damascus at the UN of the presence of nuclear sites in Syria, Syrian U.N. Ambassador Bashar Jaafari said, quoted today by pan-Arab daily Ash-Sharq-Awsat. After Damascus' denial of the Israeli accusations, the UN admitted yesterday night it had made an "error of translation" of the transcript of a meeting held on Tuesday in which a Syrian representative, Bassam Dabbagh took part. Dabbagh "has never... Read Full Story
