One of seven recently exposed Saudi terrorist cells used Syria as a base for coordinating with al-Qaida in Iraq and held training camps in the desert of neighboring Yemen, a newspaper owned by Saudi Arabia's royal family said Tuesday.
President Bashar Assad said Monday that last week's talks between Syria's foreign minister and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice were not a "breakthrough," instead accusing the Bush administration of making Damascus a scapegoat for the failures in Iraq.
Jilke, who heads the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), responsible for maintaining the cease-fire on the Syrian-Israeli border, dismissed Israeli claims of an unprecedented military buildup within Syria.
Relations between Washington and Damascus have been strained further since 2003 as Syria, a close ally of Iran, strongly objected the U.S. invasion of Iraq and blamed the US for turbulence in the country.
(RTTNews) - Monday, Syria's ambassador to the United States said that the US's obsessing for a military solution for Iraq rather than diplomacy might just prove too late for the Washington administration to salvage the fast deteriorating situation in the war ravaged country.
The head of Israel's National Security Council said Monday Syria is legitimately interested in talking to Israel. "Syria's call for dialogue with Israel is authentic," NSC Chairman Ilan Mizrahi told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Ha
NICOSIA [MENL] -- Syria has revised regulations for compulsive military service. Officials said President Bashar Assad has approved measures that revise military service, which remains at two years. They said the decree would provide exemptions as well as increase monitoring of eligible conscripts.
DAMASCUS, Syria - President Bashar Assad said yesterday that last week's talks between Syria's foreign minister and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice were not a "breakthrough," instead accusing the Bush administration of making Damascus a scapegoat for the failures in Iraq.
North West Oil Group Inc., together with the JSC "North-West Oil Group", developed and presented for the consideration of the Ministry of Oil and Mineral Resources of Syria the technical and economic feasibility study for the preparation of the contract for the construction of the refinery without tender.
Syria's new parliament opened its first session on Monday following a parliamentary election in April and re-elected Mahmoud al-Abrash as the speaker.