Beirut :: Lebanon
| about 19 hours ago
PSP leader MP Walid Jumblatt commented on Army Commander General Jean Kahwajiâs visit to Syria on Saturday and said that he could not understand the ârushâ to normalize relations with Syria. Syria, he said, was not yet committed to a definite agenda...
Tags: Walid Jumblatt, Syria
Damascus :: Syria
| 1 day ago
Lebanese Christian opposition leader Michel Aoun, who spent 15 years in exile after an aborted "war of liberation" against Syria, is set to make an unprecedented visit to his one-time foe. "This is an introductory visit to turn over a painful page in...
Tags: Michel Aounâ, Syriaâ, Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement, mp michel, Lebanon, leader mp, Issam Abu Jamra
Beirut :: Lebanon
| 2 days ago
President Michel Sleiman discussed with visiting Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme the Lebanese domestic situation and its foreign relations, particularly its relations with Syria...Sleiman, according to the statement issued by Baabda Palace on Saturday,...
Tags: Syria, Lebanon, Belgium, Alain Aoun, Yevs Letherme, Aounâ, prime minister
Beirut :: Lebanon
| 2 days ago
Heading a military delegation, Lebanese army commander Gen. Jean Qahwaji arrived in Damascus Saturday morning at the invitation of Syrian army commander Gen. Ali Halabi, NBN TV reported. Anahar daily said that the army commander would discuss the...
Tags: Lebanonâ, army commander, Damascus, Syria, elections united, Bashar al-Assad, Nicolas Sarkozy, Hasan Turkmani, Jean Kahwaji, MP Nabil De Freij
Damascus :: Syria
| 4 days ago
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkish Prime Minister Rajeb Taib Erdogan plan to send humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, which is under Israeli blockade, the Syrian ruling Baath party's mouthpiece daily said on Thursday. The two leaders also agreed,...
Tags: israel, gaza, Syriaâ, Syrian
Brussels :: Belgium
| 5 days ago
Their "situation is deteriorating, due to the depleting of their initial financial resources and the absence of work authorization," the document says. According to Syrian government estimates, there are more than 1 million Iraqis with residence permits...
Tags: iraqi, iraq, refugees, syria, jordan, iraqis refugees, Syrian
Tehrān :: Iran
| 5 days ago
Iran - Envoy The close relationship between Damascus and Tehran is 'very important' to the Middle East, according to Syrian Ambassador to the UK Sami Khiyami. "The relations are very strategic," Khiyami said. "It is not because Iran has blue eyes but...
Tags: nuclear programme, syria, Iran, Middle East, Tehran-Damascus, UK Sami Khiyami, David Miliband, Israel
Beirut :: Lebanon
| 5 days ago
Head of the Lebanese Forces Executive Council Samir Geagea said that Lebanon should take seriously the threats made recently by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barack against Hezbollah and Lebanon, because, he said, they were directed at Iran, as Israel...
Tags: israel, syria, Lebanon
Damascus :: Syria
| 6 days ago
He pointed out that there is no sufficient evidence so far that Syria has violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Tags: iran, Iran Air, Qashqavi Iran, Iran's Foreign Ministry, Syria, Hassan Qashqavi, Iraqi, IAEA, U.S, Mohamed ElBaradei
Beirut :: Lebanon
| 6 days ago
41 AM in Beirut Beirut- Dr Samir Geagea leader of the Lebanese Forces said on Tuesday Syria is blamed for "20 crimes or assassination attempts in Lebanon in the past two years." "If the international tribunal exonerates Syria, then I'll admit that I...
Tags: Syrian, Syriaâ, Dr Samir Geagea, Saudi Arabia, Sleiman Franjieh, visits syria, Lebanon, movement leader, Suleiman Franjieh, MP Franjieh
