Russia dismissed Friday Israeli accusations that Moscow had stoked this summer's military tensions between Israel and Syria, adding that Moscow's only goal was "to reduce tensions" in the region.
Syria, home to as many as 1.5 million Iraqi refugees, has decided to require visas for Iraqis entering the country for economic, trade and educational purposes, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations has sent about 10,000 text messages on mobile phones to help inform Iraqi refugees in Syria that an international food distribution program for them begins tomorrow.
Syria to Require Visas for Iraqis As of Early Next Month, Iraqi Foreign Ministry Says
Syria, already home to more than a million Iraqi refugees, will require Iraqis to obtain visas before allowing them to enter the country for economic, trade and educational purposes, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
The United Nations today sent about 10,000 text messages to help inform Iraqi refugees in Syria, via their cellphones, that an international food distribution for them will start tomorrow.
Syria: UN to use cellphone text messages to alert Iraqi refugees (AKI) - The United Nations is using text messaging on mobile phones to alert more than 33,000 Iraqi refugees the Syrian capital, Damascus of the launch Saturday of the first food distribution programme for them. "We have found text messages to mobile phones are one of the most effective ways of communicating with the ...
The UN refugee agency on Thursday appealed for greater help for Syria and Jordan which have taken in almost two million Iraqi refugees.
Syria: Prisoners held in Israel remembered (AKI) - Activists in an Israeli occupied village in the Golan Heights will on Saturday commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the arrest of dozens of Syrians by Israeli forces in the territory and demand the release of Syrians held in Israeli jails.In 1984, three years after Israel annexed the Golan Heights which it occupied in 1967, Syrian ...
Damascus- Syrian government sources said Friday that from September 10, Iraqis wanting to visit Syria will have to apply for a visa at the Syrian embassy in Baghdad. The measure, considered a bid to stem the flow of refugees from Iraq, had been decid...