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Emerging from international isolation with a flurry of high-level Western visitors and ties boosted with Turkey, Syria has gained in confidence to the point of holding out on an EU partnership. The European Union hoped to sign a partnership accord on...

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...

A U.S. court of appeal on Monday denied Syrian-born Canadian Maher Arar the right to sue the United States over his deportation to Syria, where he was tortured. Two Ottawa swine flu immunization clinics began turning people away by about...

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...

A Lebanese security source told Al-Akhbar newspaper that Telecommunications Minister Gebran Bassil, along with former Minister Michel Samaha, travelled to Syria on Thursday. “Bassil went to offer his condolences to the Syrian president’s political advisor, Bouthaina Shaaban, following...

Syrian President’s political advisor Bouthaina Shaaban told Syrian newspaper Al-Watan on Tuesday that Damascus is pleased to see a cabinet formed in Lebanon, stating, “Lebanon is a friend; its security and stability are our security and stability.” Shaaban stressed that...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told As-Safir newspaper during his visit to Zagreb that the formation of the Lebanese government is “the responsibility of the Lebanese.” “Syria, Saudi Arabia and the summit that brought both the countries’ leaders together cannot be...