Syria insisted on Monday on its determination to recover the Golan Heights, the strategic plateau seized in war by arch-enemy Israel 40 years ago.
An Israeli delegation will hold discussions in Washington this week focusing on Iran and Syria, including talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, an official said on Monday.
June 4 (Bloomberg) -- Syria became the second Middle Eastern nation in two weeks to say it will dump its currency's peg to the dollar to curb rising import costs and inflation.
The Druse of the Golan Heights once burned their Israeli identity cards to demonstrate loyalty to Syria and protest Israel's annexation of the mountain plateau captured in the 1967 Mideast War.
Syria has become the second Middle East nation to de-peg from the ailing US dollar, Bloomberg reports.
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Both Syria and the Lebanese opposition that it supports criticized the United Nations on Thursday for its decision to establish a tribunal to prosecute the killers of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Syria has jailed four more dissidents, one for 12 years, matching the heaviest sentence handed down since President Bashar Assad took power seven years ago, a human rights group said Monday. "The state security court in Damascus sentenced Abdel-Jabbar Allawi to death, commuted to 12 years' imprisonment.
A top deputy to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert travels to the United States this week to discuss the possibility of resuming peace talks with Syria, an aide said on Monday. Deputy Premier Shaul Mofaz' Washington trip, which begins Wednesday, follows signals Israel and the US could soften their stand on Syria.
DAMASCUS -- Syria has jailed four more dissidents, one of them for 12 years matching the heaviest sentence handed down since President Bashir Al Assad took power seven years ago, a human rights group said Monday.
A top deputy to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert travels to the United States this week to discuss the possibility of resuming peace talks with Syria, an aide said on Monday.