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.
(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) Qatar National Bank (QNB) has announced that its Syrian unit, QNB-Syria starts operations Sunday in the country''s capital, Damascus. QNB-Syria plans to progressively expand its presence across the country to include 15 ...
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday that Israel was interested in renewing peace negotiations with Syria, after Syrian President Bashar Assad on Friday questioned Israel's will to restart the talks. "Israel has an interest in returning to ...
PARIS - Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said Friday that he had no "Israeli partner" ready to push forward the Middle East peace process. Accusing hardline Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of not being serious about peace, Assad told ...
PARIS - Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said that US President Barack Obama should come up with a firm plan of action to renew peace talks between Syria and Israel. In an interview with French daily Le Figaro published Friday, Assad said the ...
Paris, France (CNN) -- Syrian President Bashar Assad says peace talks with Israel could resume if the Jewish state showed willingness to fully engage in the process. "This peace process cannot only be relaunched by one party. Syria wants peace and we ...
Syrian president tells French counterpart in Paris that his country wants to resume peace talks with Israel through Turkish mediation, but feels there is no 'Israeli partner willing to move forward, achieve results'
Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, has hailed a "climate of trust" with France ahead of a visit to Paris. Al-Assad, due in the capital on Friday for talks with President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to focus on prospects for Israeli-Syrian ...
PARIS, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Friday that an Israeli call to renew peace talks was mere "word play" and the United States should be doing more to resolve conflict in the Middle East. Assad was in Paris for talks ...
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 ...
AFP/SANA/File – A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows President Bashar al-Assad, … "A year and a half after the resumption of good relations between France and Syria , we have first of all built a climate ...
(IsraelNN.com) Middle East expert David Bukai spoke with Arutz-7 on Thursday following reports that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had told Syrian leaders that Israel would consider withdrawing from the Golan. Israel has no need to fear losing the ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki discussed regional issues and weapons allegations with his Syrian counterpart Wednesday in Tehran. Mottaki welcomed Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem to Tehran for a two-day visit to discuss issues ...
“We share a common stance with Syria on establishment of stability in the region and respect for national sovereignty of the neighboring states,” Mottaki told a joint press conference with his Syrian counterpart Walid Moallem. On Lebanon, Mottaki ...
Syrian President Bashar Assad on Friday rejected Israel's call for direct peace talks but said he was prepared to resume indirect negotiations mediated by Turkey. Assad was in Paris two days after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited the city ...
RubinReportsBarry RubinAs I’ve previously reported, policy toward Syria has been the best-run aspect of Obama Administration foreign policy. That’s largely because it has been left in the hands of State Department officials who have no illusions about that radical dictatorship which is Iran’s closest ally and is determined to remain that way. Now Syrian dictator President Bashar al-Assad has complained to the country’s official news agency...