A Syrian court sentenced four pro-democracy campaigners, including one of Syria's most respected writers, to prison terms Sunday as part of President's Bashar Assad's latest crack down on dissent.
MUSCAT — Some 100 companies from Syria are taking part in an exhibition of products from that country under way at the Oman International Exhibitions Centre in Seeb.
DAMASCUS: A Syrian court sentenced four pro-democracy campaigners, including one of Syria's most-respected writers, to prison terms yesterday as part of President's Bashar Assad's latest crack down on dissent.
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States has extended sanctions on Syria for another year. President George Bush has decided to renew sanctions against Syria for the fourth year in a row. The White House said Syria continues to support what officials termed terrorism.
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Syria has advanced its military schedule in what could signal plans for war with Israel in 2007.
Prominent Syrian opposition activists Michel Kilo and Mahmud Issa were sentenced to three years in prison on Sunday for "weakening national sentiment", according to a Syrian human rights group.
The United States condemned Syria on Friday after Syrian courts sentenced two leading political dissidents to lengthy jail terms.
Finally, a breakthrough in hitherto strained US-Syria relations ? This is the question raised by the news that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had met Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem recently for talks on Iraq.
May 12 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. condemned Syria and Vietnam for their crackdown on political activists after pro-democracy campaigners were arrested in the two countries.
Syria's Baathist dominated parliament unanimously nominated President Bashar al-Assad on Friday for a second term and set May 27 as the date for a referendum which dissidents have condemned as undemocratic.