MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights: Syrian police blocked dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters from approaching the Israeli frontier on Monday. The toll of demonstrators killed trying to break through into the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights rose to (...)
DAMASCUS: Syria on Thursday warned the United States to stop trying to interfere as Arab leaders try to defuse heightened tensions in the Middle East.
Saudi King Abdullah, who arrived in Syria on Thursday, was expected to travel with the Syrian (...)
DAMASCUS: Syria has forbidden the country's students and teachers from wearing the niqab — the full Islamic veil that reveals only a woman's eyes — taking aim at a garment many see as political.
The ban shows a rare point of agreement between (...)
DAMASCUS: The US administration is determined to achieve a truly comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace settlement that includes normal relations between Israel and all of its Arab neighbors, President Barack Obama s special Mideast envoy said (...)
DAMASCUS: Syria and Lebanon agreed Thursday to negotiate the demarcation of their border, a longtime demand of the Lebanese as they seek to normalize relations with their long dominant larger neighbor.
A day after the countries presidents agreed (...)
DAMASCUS: Egypt has begun pumping natural gas to Syria by a pipeline running through Jordan as part of a giant project to export Egyptian gas to the Middle East and eventually to Europe, Syria s oil minister said Thursday.
Sufian Allaw said the (...)
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DAMASCUS: Egypt s intelligence chief held talks Saturday with Hamas exiled political leader in Damascus on forming a Palestinian unity government and swapping prisoners for a kidnapped Israeli soldier, a Hamas official said. (...)
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DAMASCUS, Syria: Six weeks after Hamas militants captured an Israeli soldier near Gaza and Egypt stepped in to mediate, a prisoner swap for Palestinians was still not imminent, a senior Hamas official said Saturday. Moussa Abu (...)