The United States expressed support for Lebanon's government Tuesday and warned Syria against any efforts to block an international trial over the murder of ex-Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri.
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.
UNITED NATIONS — Top officials in America and Israel yesterday tied eruptions of violence in Lebanon and Gaza to larger regional developments and accused key regional players of fomenting the violence to serve their own interest. In Washington, the White House press secretary, Tony Snow, pointed at Syria as a possible instigator of clashes between the Lebanese army and an Al Qaeda-affiliated ...
Syria Posts Moderate Growth in GDP: Study
JERUSALEM – The U.S. has given Prime Minister Ehud Olmert the green light to negotiate with Syria regarding an Israeli retreat from the Golan Heights, according to diplomatic sources quoted today by Israel's Haaretz daily newspaper.
DAMASCUS - Syria distanced itself on Tuesday from the Islamists staging a deadly showdown in Lebanon while warning that a planned international murder trial for a Lebanese ex-premier would only further destabilise its neighbour.
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.
WASHINGTON (Thomson Financial) - The United States expressed support for Lebanon's government today, and warned Syria against any efforts to block an international trial over the murder of ex-Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri.
MOSCOW. May 22 (Interfax) - Israel is concerned by sales of Russian arms to Syria and Iran, which subsequently make their way into the hands of extremists, former Israeli Prime Minister and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu said.
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.