At issue is whether Syria had begun early work on what could become a nuclear weapons program with the help of North Korea.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wants the U.S.-sponsored November peace conference to focus on Israeli-Palestinian relations and not Israel's conflict with Syria, an Israeli government official said Tuesday, probably ruling out Syrian participation.
DAMASCUS, Oct 9, 2007 (AFP) - Mural paintings dating back 11,000 years have been found in a building on a bank of the River Euphrates in northern Syria, a French archaeologist said on Tuesday.
At issue is whether Israeli intelligence about work on a Syrian nuclear weapons program done with help from North Korea was conclusive enough to justify military action and a possible rethinking of U.S. policy toward the two nations.
TEHRAN – Former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer has stated that Washington should acknowledge the important role of Syria in the Middle East.
Some 30 Jordanian prisoners in Syria are expected to return home within days as a result of stepped-up efforts of an independent civil group calling for the release of 187 Jordanian detainees, the Jordan Times newspaper reported on Tuesday. ...
Syria has not received US invitation for the planned Middle East peace conference to be held in the United States in November, said Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem yesterday.
by Staff Writers Geneva (AFP) Oct 9, 2007 Israel's air strike inside Syrian territory in early September was not a message for Iran despite claims by some US conservatives, Iran's parliamentary speaker said on Tuesday.
Syria reasserted on Monday that its participation in an international peace conference called by the U.S. administration depends on clarifications about the goals of this meeting and the issues it will discuss, the official SANA news agency ...
The Turkish government wants to see its neighbor Syria in the upcoming period as part of regional resolutions, not as part of regional problems, Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said on Monday in Jerusalem following his talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.