President Bush pointedly declined on Thursday to discuss an Israeli airstrike in northern Syria on Sept. 6 that Israeli officials say hit a nuclear-related facility that North Korea was helping to equip.
Afraid of proposed new visa restrictions, Iraqis flooded into Syria at 10 times their normal numbers earlier this month until the measures were postponed, a Syrian customs official said Thursday.
Since the measure was announced, the daily refugee flow has risen to more than 20,000. -- Iraqis spurred by a planned visa requirement flooded into Syria at several times their normal numbers this month until the measures were postponed, a Syrian customs official said Thursday.
Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu has broken an official silence over Syria's accusations that Israel bombed its territory, hinting the reported mission was of strategic significance and a success.
A powerful bomb killed an anti-Syria lawmaker and six others Wednesday in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut, threatening to derail an effort by an already deeply divided Parliament to elect Lebanon's next president in voting to begin next week.
Israel's media and politicians lambasted former premier Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday for becoming the first official to say Israel was behind the recent air strike deep inside Syria.
President Bush repeatedly refused to comment at a White House news conference on reports that Israeli planes attacked an installation reputed to be the beginnings of a nuclear project in Syria on Sept. 6.
The US had concerns about potential nuclear-related co-operation between North Korea and Syria before recently receiving Israeli intelligence on the issue that Israel reportedly used to justify an air strike inside Syria.
The Associated Press September 20, 2007 - 6:39 p.m. DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria has signed a 20-year oil exploration contract worth US$17 million with Canada's Loon Energy Inc. (TSXV:LEY) in the country's central west region, the official SANA news agency reported Thursday.
Israel's opposition leader has given the first confirmation of an air strike on an unknown target deep in Syria.