Syria reasserted on Monday that its participation in an international peace conference called by the U.S. administration depends on clarifications about the goals of this meeting and the issues it will discuss, the official SANA news agency ...
Syria has not received US invitation for the planned Middle East peace conference to be held in the United States in November, said Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem yesterday.
The Turkish government wants to see its neighbor Syria in the upcoming period as part of regional resolutions, not as part of regional problems, Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said on Monday in Jerusalem following his talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Turkey assured the Damascus government on Sunday it would not let Israel use its airspace to strike Syria after an Israeli raid heightened tension in the Middle East.
DAMASCUS - "Turkey and Syria have deep historical ties. The relations between Turkey and Syria have reached highest level possible in the recent past," said Turkish Foreign Minister and Chief Negotiator for EU talks Ali Babacan on Sunday.
Diplomats and political analysts say Syria is building strong ties to former Iraqi Baathists and Sunni insurgents in hopes of gaining influence in Iraq.
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- A small Syrian military plane crashed south of Damascus on Sunday, killing three people, witnesses at the scene said.
TEHRAN, Oct. 8 (MNA) -- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Parliamentary and Consular Affairs Mohammad Ali Shahidi on Sunday confirmed that Vice President for Parliamentary Affairs Ahmad Musavi had been nominated to be Iran’s next ambassador to Syria.
Source: Human Rights Watch (New York, October 8, 2007) – Syria should immediately release writers and activists detained solely for expressing their opinions or reporting information online, Human Rights Watch said today. ...
WASHINGTON - A top-secret report by the U.S. intelligence services says several North Korean scientists were injured in Israel's strike in Syria last month, top Washington Post columnist Jim Hoagland reported in the paper Sunday.