A top North Korean official held talks in Syria on Sunday, amid reports -- strongly denied by both countries -- that Pyongyang was helping Damascus develop a nuclear programme.
In a change quietly enacted Oct. 1, Syria has closed its borders to all but a small group of Iraqis and imposed new visa rules that will legally require the 1.5 million Iraqis currently in Syria to return to Iraq.
Syria denied on Sunday that its President Bashar al-Assad had given his backing to any Turkish military strike against Kurdish rebels in Iraq, as tensions mounted on the Iraqi-Turkish border.
by Staff Writers Damascus (AFP) Oct 21, 2007 A top North Korean official held talks in Syria on Sunday, amid reports -- strongly denied by both countries -- that Pyongyang was helping Damascus develop a nuclear programme.
President Jalal Talabani of Iraq said that Syria?s president had crossed a ?red line? by speaking approvingly of Turkey?s threat of a cross-border offensive.
DUBAI — Syrian former heptathlete Ghada Shouaa, the winner of her country’s first and only Olympics gold medal in 1996, publicly criticised the sports authority in her country for not taking a courageous step like Morocco to name her the first lady minister of Youth and Sports in Syria.
DAMASCUS: A top North Korean official held talks in Syria yesterday, amid reports — strongly denied by both countries — that Pyongyang was helping Damascus develop a nuclear programme.
Syria has closed its borders to Iraqis and imposed new visa rules that will legally require 1.5 million Iraqis currently in Syria to return to Iraq.
Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Naji Otri, pictured in 2006. A top North Korean official held talks in Syria on Sunday, amid reports -- strongly denied by both countries -- that Pyongyang was helping Damascus develop a nuclear programme.
US Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday accused Syria of using "bribery and intimidation" to undermine a free vote in Lebanon's upcoming presidential election. "We are of course hopeful and a great deal concerned about the future of Lebanon, which will elect a president in the coming weeks," he said in a speech to the Washington.