Syria Travel News

The man, his head wrapped in a red and white Arabic scarf, hops off his donkey, waltzes casually into the shop and then reappears, trotting off, just missing a sheep.

TRIBUTES have been paid to a respected former headmistress and round-the-world cyclist.

The United Nations, Denmark and drought-stricken Syria collaborated to refurbish a water treatment facility with a reverse osmosis unit.

One of the bicycling world's most articulate travel authors passed away recently on what she said was going to be her last around-the-world bike tour.

Syria is experiencing a severe drought that is jeopardizing the livelihoods of thousands of families.

"Syria and Turkey: Walking Arm in Arm Down the Same Road? David Schenker Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Vol.

From the old Orient Express terminus to the Whirling Dervishes who perform in some of the city's restaurants it's still possible to recapture that oriental romance The huge medieval Citadel still dominates the city Why Aleppo? An alluring mix of medieval and modern, Aleppo, in Syria , vies with the capital, Damascus, as the world's oldest ...

Date : Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:26:27 PST Syria's inimitable cuisine By Mary Taylor Simeti FT November 28 2009 00:32 A colourful display of pickles in Damascus Thank God I hadn't bought a carpet, like some of my fellow travellers had.

"U.S., EU must tackle Syria on Kurds' plight: group Reuters Thursday, November 26, 2009; 4:07 AM LONDON - Human Rights Watch urged the United States and Europe on Thursday to raise the plight of Syria's Kurdish minority in talks with Damascus.

Let's admit it, even Turkey's most hardcore secular nationalists who frequently use the idiom "neither the candy of Damascus, nor the face of an Arab" are happy about the rapprochement policy of Turkey with the Middle East.

Viet Nam will make a last-ditch effort to be still in contention for the Asian Football Confederation Cup when they take on Syria in the second leg away today.

ANGELINA Jolie will adopt a child from Syria . So says OK! magazine. Right now Syrian children are smoothing down their hair and widening their eyes.

President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday stepped up French diplomacy in the Middle East, holding talks with Palestinian andIsraeli leaders ahead of an Elysee meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. With the Israeli-Palestinian peace effort in peril, Sarkozy spoke by phone with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas after meeting for nearly two hours ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has called for France to play a bigger role in Middle East peace efforts.

You know you're suffering a mild logistical hiccup when even your Turkish taxi driver decides to dump you and forgo the rest of his fare.

I knew very little about Syria when I received the invitation to be part of the "first North America press delegation" to the country's annual Silk Road Festival.

AU Abroad, in an effort to accommodate a wide range of student interests, has created several new study abroad programs and may be opening a program in Syria.

Every week the Midwest Traveler pages in this section display wonderful photographs that Des Moines Register readers have taken on their travels.

"Your tour was canceled. I am sorry," my hotel manager in Hama, Syria, said to me, shrugging his shoulders.

Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Wednesday that Iran and Syria favor regional stability and peace and respect national sovereignty of the neighboring states, the official IRNA news agency reported.