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The report said a presidential decree last year placed controls on transferring property in areas inhabited by Kurds. Also in 2008 security forces killed three Kurds celebrating the Kurdish Nowruz new year. In 2007, security forces fired at Kurdish crowds...

Some believe Hamas should insist on releasing all the prisoners on the list handed over to Israel, while others hold a more pragmatic approach that not all the movement's demands can be achieved. (Ynet)  

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...

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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...

Yishai needs to make humane decision on foreign kids Minister for Minority Affairs Avishay Braverman said on Sunday that the government's decision to allow the 1,200 children of foreign workers to complete the school year in Israel is a step...

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...