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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.

According to Czech-born psychologist Max Wertheimer's Gestalt theory, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. When it comes to coalition governments in Israel, the whole is ironically as strong as the weakness of its parts. What kept...

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.

Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir said on Monday that for him to visit Syria is “out of the question.” He also said that Hezbollah “is an armed party with known motives.” Sfeir said that he is against Palestinian naturalization, highlighting...

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....

An Ottawa city councillor is questioning why a provincial bill aimed at limiting corporate contributions to municipal election candidates doesn't just ban those donations. Some residents of a west-end Ottawa community housing development say unchecked mould in their buildings is...

Turkey and Syria celebrated on Tuesday the inception of the new Syrian-Turkish Strategic Cooperation Council, which was created during Syrian President Bashar Assad's recent visit to Turkey. Syrian and Turkish ministers meeting in Aleppo on Tuesday outlined the agreement between...

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...