Syria agrees with France that rival Lebanese camps should decide on a compromise presidential candidate without outside interference, President Bashar al-Assad told French envoys on Sunday.
The U.S. and Syria sparred over Lebanon Saturday, warning each other not to interfere in the country's upcoming presidential election.
Security forces killed a Kurdish youth and wounded four other people in northeastern Syria while breaking up a protest against a possible Turkish incursion into Iraqi Kurdistan, witnesses and Kurdish activists said on Sunday.
The US and Syria sparred over Lebanon, warning each other not to interfere in the country's upcoming presidential election.
Six countries and the Arab League on Saturday warned against outside interference in Lebanon's upcoming presidential elections in a statement clearly targeted at Syria.
JERUSALEM - Syria is welcome to join Middle East peace talks set to be held before the end of this year in Annapolis, Md., the U.S. and Israel both said on Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and visiting U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice agreed on Sunday that Syria could attend the upcoming U.S.-sponsored international Mideast peace conference on certain conditions, local daily Haaretz r ...
Security forces killed a Kurdish youth and wounded four other people in north-eastern Syria while breaking up a protest against a possible Turkish incursion into Iraqi Kurdistan, witnesses and Kurdish activists said on Sunday.
Two senior envoys dispatched by French President Nicolas Sarkozy held talks Sunday with Syrian President Bashar Assad on the political crisis in Lebanon, the French presidency said. Just a day after the US and France chastised Syria over Lebanon, warning it against interfering in the Lebanese presidential election.
DAMASCUS: Security forces killed a Kurdish youth and wounded four other people in northeastern Syria while breaking up a protest against a possible Turkish incursion into Iraqi Kurdistan, witnesses and Kurdish activists said yesterday.