TEHRAN -- A suddenly listless San Miguel-RP team yielded anew to Syria’s Al Jalaa, 109-77, Saturday to see its title ambitions sink in the 18th FIBA Asia Champions Cup at the Azadi Stadium here.
Speaking in the eastern town of Deir al-Zor, 432km east of Damascus, on the Euphrates River, the president said, “When we see resisting Iraq to our east, and resisting Lebanon to our west, and to our south the resisting Palestinian people, we in Syria feel not merely that we are in the midst of these events, but in their very heart”.
Damascus: Syria closed its borders with Lebanon, citing security situation in northern Lebanon, according to a Syrian Interior Ministry source.
The Syrian Interior Ministry announced on Sunday that two border crossings with northern Lebanon would be closed temporarily until the situation in north Lebanon becomes secure, the official SANA news agency reported.
Damascus - Syria on Saturday strongly denounced Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City and urged the two rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah to adhere to national unity. Syria condemns, with the strongest phrases, this US-backed Israeli terrorism and...
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Damascus - A Syrian Interior Ministry source said Sunday that, due to the security circumstances in northern Lebanon, it was closing the border with Lebanon. ... To preserve the security of Syrian and Lebanese inhabitants, the interior ministry has d...
A cabinet minister said the fighting with Fatah al-Islam, which the government says is backed by Syria, seemed timed to try to derail U.N. moves to set up an international court to try those suspected of carrying out political killings in Lebanon.
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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.