US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice travels Tuesday for a series of meetings on Iraq, ready to open a long-awaited but "firm" dialogue with the previously taboo regimes in Iran and Syria.
US President George W. Bush said Tuesday that a conference this week on Iraq's security will be "an important test" of whether Iran and Syria truly want to help their war-torn neighbor.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will participate in a meeting with major powers involved in Mideast peace that will also include Syria at an upcoming summit in Egypt on Iraq, a State Department spokesman said Tuesday.
Six leading opposition figures jailed in Syria warned on Tuesday that the "repressive climate" in their country was worsening and called for the release of all political prisoners.
DAMASCUS, May 2 Asia Pulse - Head of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Ezzatollah Zarghami and Syrian Minister of Information Mohsen Bilal in their meeting here Monday considered cooperation in the fields of radio and television of Iran and Syria.
Syria's Foreign Minister Valid al-Moualem said that his country will attend the international conference of Iraq's neighboring countries in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
U.S. President George W. Bush said Tuesday that the coming international conference on Iraq's security will test both Iran and Syria's seriousness to play constructive role in Iraq.
The U.N. refugee agency says it has signed an agreement with Syria to help the country cope with the health and education needs of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees.
Source: IRIN Iraqi doctors in Damascus have welcomed the announcement today by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) that it is contributing US $2 million to the Syrian Ministry of Health towards the strengthening of medical facilities available for more than one million Iraqi refugees in Syria.
Syria - Confab - Iraq Syrian Foreign Minister Valid al-Moualem said that his country will attend the international conference of Iraq's neighboring countries in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.