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.
The grave was discovered in the royal palace in what used to be the ancient Syrian city of Qatna. Archaeologists are unsure the role the tomb plays in light of other discoveries, which have already been made in the area. The tomb is estimated to be 3 ...
Obama’s White House has engineered a policy U-turn in its relations with Syria. George W Bush had branded Dr Assad’s regime as a cheerleader of terrorism, a haven for Iraqi Baathist and jihadist insurgents, the assassin of Lebanon’s Druze ...
I am currently in Israel, in an area called the Golan Heights, which rests alongside the Syrian border. The following is a video blog that highlights the problematic policy the United States has with regards to Syria, and its larger role in the ...
Six-Day War, ministers, including Menachem Begin, were willing to give up on the gains made on the Syrian front in exchange for peace. listing the following conditions: "A peace agreement would require: 1. Demilitarization of the Syrian heights ...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he would begin peace talks with Israel only after Netanyahu "guarantees the full return of land and rights", the Syrian News Service reported. Bashar al-Assad met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris ...
While the Obama administration and congressional leaders may justify renewed engagement with Syria with their desire to jumpstart the Middle East peace process, they ignore the very issue that lies at the heart of the Syrian threat to U.S. national security: Syrian support for radical Islamist terror. This may seem both illogical and counterfactual given past antagonism between the 'Alawite-led regime and the Muslim Brotherhood, but there is...
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris last week that he wanted to launch talks with Damascus without preconditions, according to Syrian President Bashar Assad's top aide Bouthaina Shaaban. Shaaban told Arab ...
In a story attributed to The Jerusalem Post staff and Post reporter Anshel Pfeffer, Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted this evening that Israel possessed nuclear weapons. Israel has never admitted to having nuclear weapons,but few ...
The IAEA has rejected Syria's explanation for the presence of uranium traces near the site of its destroyed al-Kibar nuclear plant and near a smaller facility in Damascus. The IAEA says Syria is lying. IAEA inspectors have found and analysed traces of man-made uranium, both at that site - known as al-Kibar or Dair Alzour - and at a small research reactor in Damascus."The results do not support
VIENNA - The UN atomic watchdog said Tuesday it was inspecting a nuclear research reactor in Damascus because it had doubts about Syria’s explanation as to how traces of uranium got there. In its latest report on Syria, circulated to member states ...
Israeli troops taking part in a training exercise in the Golan Heights. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says his country has not set preconditions for holding peace talks with Israel, but adds that Damascus "will not renounce" its rights ...
Damascus has yet to provide the cooperation necessary to determine the origin of uranium found at the razed Dair Alzour site, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said. Israeli fighters bombed the Dair Alzour facility near al-Kibar in Syria in 2007 ...
DAMASCUS, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad held talks with visiting Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, who arrived in Damascus early Thursday, the official SANA news agency reported. Suleiman's visit comes two days after the ...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - The French president says his country is ready to mediate between Syria and Israel and warns that extremists could benefit from a continued deadlock in the Mideast peace process.
Nicolas Sarkozy says he has conveyed his offer to "facilitate talks" to Syrian President Bashar Assad and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel and Syria had indirect peace talks last year through Turkish mediators.
Little has changed in Quneitra, former capital of the Syrian Golan Heights, since Israeli forces ... A recent rapprochement with Saudi Arabia has been matched by the signing of co-operation agreements with Turkey, a country Syria almost went to war ...