The U.S. ambassador to Israel on Monday said the United States is not pressuring Israel to rebuff Syrian offers of peace negotiations, denying reports that Washington has been urging Israel to shun Syria.
by Staff Writers London (AFP) May 21, 2007 Syria has agreed to send Iran at least 10 air defence systems that the government in Damascus is buying from Russia, Jane's Defence Weekly reported in its latest edition.
BEIRUT -- Lebanon and Syria exchanged charges yesterday, with each blaming the other for an outbreak of fighting that has killed dozens of people in and around a Palestinian refugee camp near the northern city of Tripoli.
Syria's UN Ambassador says that militants fighting Lebanese troops had been jailed in Damascus a few years ago for links to al-Qaeda.
SYRIA has agreed to supply Iran with at least ten out of 50 air defence systems that Damascus is buying from Russia. Jane's Defence Weekly this week
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al- Muallem warned on Monday that an international tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was a tool of the United States to undermine Syria.
Syria's Parliament Speaker Mahmud al-Abrash said yesterday that unity and convergence with Iran would be beneficial to all regional states. Al-Abrash was speaking in a meeting with Iran's Ambassador to Syria Mohammad-Hassan Akhtari.
Exiled Hamas leader in Syria Khaled Meshaal on Monday demanded Lebanese forces to preserve the lives of Palestinian refugees in northern Lebanon where the forces fought the radical Palestinian faction of Fatah al-Islam for a second day.
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri and the visiting Foreign Minister of Syria Walid Al-Moualem Friday shared deep concerns on the ongoing instability and violence in Iraq and the resulting exodus of a large number of Iraqi refugees to the neighboring countries, including Syria.
Source: Reuters By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS, May 21 (Reuters) - Syria's U.N. Ambassador said on Monday that militants fighting Lebanese troops had been jailed in Damascus a few years ago for links to al Qaeda ...