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Israel no longer trusts Turkey Israel no longer trusts Turkey to mediate peace talks with Syria, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, signaling how much relations have deteriorated between the regional allies in recent months.   Erdogan singled...

Damascus has yet to provide the cooperation necessary to determine the origin of uranium found at the razed Dair Alzour site, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said. Israeli fighters bombed the Dair Alzour facility near al-Kibar in Syria in 2007.

Tuesday it was inspecting a nuclear research reactor in Damascus because it had doubts about Syria's explanation as to how traces of uranium got there...It had therefore decided to carry out a new inspection of the reactor on Tuesday to...

In a relayed message to Syrian President Bashar Assad through French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Netanyahu said, “We have accepted the principle of withdrawing from the Golan; let's discuss the details,” the Arabic-language satellite network Al-Arabiya reported on Thursday.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are in Syria, using their powers for good. The celebrity übercouple visited Iraqi refugees in Damascus today in an attempt to keep the lowest-profile victims of the war from falling off the radar, People reports....

Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz began a two-day visit to Syria on Wednesday, his first since acceding to the throne in 2005, in a further sign of warming ties between the two Arab states. He was welcomed at the...

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The Spanish Prime Minister starts a three day trip to the Middle East The Spanish Prime Minister was in Damascus at the start of a three day visit to the Middle East on Wednesday. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero took the...

The visit is being seen as part of a burgeoning rapprochement that could help resolve internal Arab conflicts in Lebanon and the West Bank and Gaza. Saudi-Syrian relations cooled after the killing in 2005 of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik...

You would not know it if you follow the pro-Assad blogs and the chipper news emanating from Damascus, and you certainly would not know it if you listen to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad himself or see the expediency by which...