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.
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - A Saudi diplomat says the kingdom has appointed a new ambassador to Syria, a strong sign that the rival Arab nations were moving to mend relations. Relations between the two countries soured after the 2005 assassination of ...
Via the Syrian Arab News Agency, a July 4 report: Ministry of Health Reports First Swine Flu Case in Syria. Excerpt:Minister of Health Rida Saeed announced today the first swine flue case in Syria in a woman who works in...
Saudi Arabia and the United States are pressing Syria to demarcate its border with Lebanon, in order to allow for the beginning of an Israeli withdrawal from the disputed Shaba Farms area, straddling the border between Lebanon and the Golan Heights.
President Bashar Assad recently made an official visit to Armenia “to enhance the already excellent relations between the two countries”, the official Syrian news agency SANA said. The talks between President Assad and President Serzh Sargissian ...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (20 Jun 2009 file photo)Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is praising U.S. President BarackObama and says he would like to "welcome" the U.S. leader to Syria. Syria'sstate-run news agency, SANA, says the Syrian leader ...
The President of Syria has issued a historic invitation to his American counterpart Barack Obama to a summit in Damascus. Bashar al Assad told Sky News' Middle East correspondent Dominic Waghorn he wanted to meet the US President on Syrian soil to ...
Syria's leader sent a July 4 message full of praise to President Barack Obama on Friday and invited him to visit Syria -- the latest signs Damascus is hedging its bets in Mideast politics, warming up to its rival the United States at a ... Assad sent a telegram to Obama on the occasion of the July 4 Independence Day holiday, saying, "The values that were adopted by President Obama during his election campaign and after he was elected...
DAMASCUS - Syria’s leader praised President Obama’s outreach for dialogue and invited him to visit Damascus in remarks released yesterday just days after the United States said it plans to return its ambassador to Syria after a four-year absence ...
Syria's leader sent a July 4 message full of praise to President Obama yesterday and invited him to visit Syria -- the latest signs that Damascus is hedging its bets in Mideast politics, warming up to its rival the United States at a time when its longtime ally Iran is in turmoil.
(New York) - Syrian authorities should immediately make public the fate of all detainees at Sednaya prison, at least nine of whom are believed to have been killed when military police used lethal force during unrest in the prison last July, Human ...
Damascus (Syria), July 2 : Syria's First Lady has told Sky News that she would welcome the Obamas' should they decide to visit the country's capital, Damascus. Asma al Assad's comments are the latest in a series of signs that US-Syrian relations are ...
Damascus - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree changing the penalty for 'honour killing' to at least two years in prison, Minister of Justice Minister Ahmad Hamoud Younes said in a statement Thursday. 'The number of wife-killings has ...
LONDON - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he would be willing to meet US President Barack Obama in Syria to discuss Middle East peace efforts, in a British television interview. We would like to welcome him in Syria, definitely. I am very clear about this, Assad told Sky News. Asked whether this could happen soon, the president said: That depends on him. I will ask you to convey the invitation to him, he told the news channel in the...
This committee pursued the implementation of previously signed deals and reviewed new avenues for cooperation. In this two-day meeting, Iranian Housing and Urban Development Minister Mohammad Saeidikia and Syrian Economic and Trade Minister Amer ...
Syrian officials reiterated their threat to forcefully take the Golan Heights from Israel unless an agreement between the two countries is reached soon. During a ceremony Saturday inaugurating a new communications center in Kuneitra, the Syrian town closest to the border with Israel, the Syrian Committee for the Liberation of the Golan threatened to take practical measures to return the Golan to Syrian control, adding that Israel was not...