The Syrian authorities seized some 57 kilograms of narcotics as two men were attempting to smuggle the stack into Saudi Arabia, the independent Syria-news website reported on Sunday. Syrian security officials arrested the two men, who ...
DAMASCUS. — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived here yesterday afternoon on a two-day official visit to Syria, the first since he took power last August.
A government official in Jerusalem said Saturday that although Damascus believes Tehran is the 'best thing they have at the moment,' Syria is not yet a satellite of Iran and can still be extricated from an Iranian "bear-hug."
A government official in Jerusalem said yesterday that Syria is still not a satellite of Iran and can be extricated from an Iranian "bear-hug." The official told Haaretz that Syria believes that Iran provides it with security but is being careful not to become a client state.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said on Saturday that Damascus supports French efforts to end the political crisis in Lebanon, in remarks broadcast by the Shiite Hezbollah television station.
Canadian officials suspected that the US sent a Syrian-born Canadian to Syria to be tortured, declassified papers show.
Human remains dating back to 100, 000 years ago have been discovered by a Syrian-Swiss excavating mission in Tadmor at the heart of the Syrian desert, the official SANA news agency reported on Sunday. Head of the Tadmor Antiquities and ...
Syria is facing a violent campaign by Islamist militants and six border soldiers died in attacks launched from inside Iraq, a senior Syrian security official said on Thursday.
The leader of a Syrian Islamist group claimed in an audio tape aired on Sunday that a group of Fatah al-Islam militants had escaped from the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in North Lebanon, and he hinted they would be launching attacks inside Lebanon soon. Abu Jandal al-Dimashqi, the self-declared leader of Tawhid and Jihad in Syria.
Will Saddam's execution bring democracy to Iraq? Iran and Syria defended themselves on Thursday against accusations by the US and its allies that they have been fuelling violence in Iraq.