Syria News

Sunday, November 08, 2009 DAMASCUS: Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday to stop seeking compromise with Israel but offered him an olive branch, saying Palestinians must end their divisions.

PARIS: Turkey is ready to oversee a new stage of secret peace talks between Israel and Syria, resuming a role it had played until last year, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said here Friday.

Open crates from a cargo ship seized Wednesday by Israel revealed dark green missiles inside.

Israeli commandos seized a ship Wednesday that defense officials said was carrying hundreds of tons of weapons from Iran bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas - the largest arms shipment Israel has ever commandeered.

Agents of Israel's Mossad intelligence service hacked into the computer of a senior Syrian government official a year before Israel bombed a facility in Syria in 2007, according to Der Spiegel .

A satellite image of the suspected reactor before the Sept. 6, 2007 air strike: Israeli intelligence obtained information about the secret project after stealing data from a laptop belonging to a senior Syrian official.

Syrian president reiterated that the partnership agreement between Syria and the European Union should be "in accordance with the requirements of Syria's national interest," the Syrian Arab News Agency reported Sunday.

DAMASCUS: Iraqi refugee Leila Johanna Isho is determined to make this her last year in Syria.

Syria: 16 minutes ago The Syrian Minister of Housing and Construction, Omar Ibrahim Ghalawenji and the Chairman of Syrian-Qatari Holding , Nasser Hassan Al-Ansari, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for investing in and building two sewage treatment plants in Damascus Suburb and the city of Swuedah.

The 17th Damascus International Film Festival, which was first launched in 1979, celebrates its 30th anniversary on Saturday at Al-Assad for Culture & Arts Center in Damascus, with the participation of 275 films from 52 countries.

When things look bleak on the Israeli-Palestinian peace front, very often Israel and Syria start talking about making peace with one another, analysts noted.

Egypt has long been recognised as the cultural trendsetter of the Arabic- speaking world.

The Syrian Ministry of Tourism invited journalists from Tehran to Tunis to check out its top attractions during a trip to the normally reclusive country.

The United States wants to move beyond dialogue to a more constructive relationship with Syria but will not trade away Lebanon's sovereignty to do so, a senior State Department official said on Wednesday.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said yesterday that his country was ready to resume suspended talks with Israel and called on European nations to help in the process.

With Turkey's prospects for joining the European Union growing more elusive and the country reaching out to predominantly Muslim countries with a vigor not seen in years, a longstanding question is vexing the United States and Europe: Is this large, secular Muslim country turning East instead of West? When President Obama visited Turkey in April - ...

The Syrian Ministry of Tourism invited journalists from Tehran to Tunis to check out its top attractions during a trip to the normally reclusive country.

Iraqi refugees in Syria will this week start receive U.N. text messages they can redeem for fresh food in local shops, the World Food Program said on Tuesday.

Food vouchers can now be sent to Iraqi refugee families living in Syria via text message, thanks to a new pilot project by the United Nations World Food Programme .

The remains of the justice ministry building in Baghdad after a suicide bombing attack.