Three people were seriously injured on Syria's border with Iraq as a fire broke out at a camp for Palestinian refugees from the violence-plagued country, the UN refugee agency said on Wednesday.
Tempers have flared in various areas of Syria resulting in scuffles with police, amid delays in announcing the results of the weekend parliamentary polls, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
MUSCAT — Oman and Syria will next week sign two memorandums of understanding on social development information technology. The MoUs will be signed during a meeting of the Oman-Syria Joint Committee due to open here on Saturday.
Syria told the United Nations on Tuesday rival Lebanese leaders must agree on an international court to try suspects in high-level political killings in Lebanon.
NICOSIA -- A leading rights group has denounced the recent decision of a Syrian court to jail a lawyer, arrested last year as part of a government crackdown on signatories to a Syria-Lebanon reform declaration.
Former vice president Zuhair Masharqa, who survived numerous purges to become Syria's longest serving No. 2, has died at the age of 69. Masharqa, who was vice president for 22 years, died of a massive heart attack at his home in Damascus Tuesday.
SG: I am delighted with my first ever visit to Syria. It was short but productive. I had an excellent meeting with His Excellency President Bashar al-Assad, followed by one with Vice-President Shara.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday paid his first visit to Syria for talks with President Bashar al-Assad on Lebanon and Middle East peace efforts.
Two Chinese companies, hit with fresh US sanctions aimed at stopping banned military dealings with Iran and Syria, denied Tuesday that they were doing business with the two nations.
One of Syria's most known human rights activists was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday. Anwar al-Bunni, who was among several dissidents held for the past year following Syria's biggest crackdown on critics of the regime in years, told the court he would not be silenced.