Paris-based Syrian opposition leader Abdel Halim Khaddam has lashed out at Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and the referendum due to renew his term in office later this month.
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Emerald Energy PLC said it is encouraged by increased oil production at its projects in Colombia following workover activities and by the progress on Khurbet East No.1 in Syria, where drilling commenced in mid-February.
Source: IRIN Hundreds of Palestinian refugees stranded at al-Waleed makeshift camp in no-man's land between the desert borders of Iraq and Syria are living in precarious conditions and people could die if they do not get medical treatment, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on 15 May.
U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation designed to step up financial pressures on Iran. VOA's Dan Robinson reports from Capitol Hill, measures introduced in the House and Senate would target companies investing in Iran's energy sector, while other legislation is targeting Syria.
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt | Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is likely to meet her counterpart from Syria at a conference on Iraq this week in Egypt, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
Emerald Energy Plc on Friday released an operations update prior to its annual general meeting. contracts include improved fiscal terms. Seismic acquisition is planned to commence during the third quarter of 2007 prior to potential drilling activity in 2008.
More than a million refugees is straining the resources of a country that has so far upheld an open-door policy dictated by its Arab nationalist ideology
Tourism in Syria has witnessed a significant development in recent years as one of the main features of the Syrian modernization process, the official SANA news agency reported on Wednesday.
The US reassures Lebanon's government that rapprochement with Syria would not be at its expense.
A group of Republican lawmakers have submitted a new draft bill to the US Congress to impose harsher sanction on Syria, Lebanon's Central News Agency reported Wednesday. Last week, US President George W. Bush renewed already-existing sanctions on Syria for the fourth year in a row.