Archive for the ‘Syria News’ Category

Syria - Syria sets Arab world record with at least five bloggers and cyber-dissidents detained

Friday, July 4th, 2008

MONTREAL, June 30 /CNW Telbec/ - Reporters Without Borders is worried by the lack of news about Hammam Haddad, a Damascus University student and author of magazine and Internet articles, since his arrest on 5 …

Israel pushes for direct talks with Syria "very soon"

Friday, July 4th, 2008

By Zerin Elci

ANKARA (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called on Thursday for quickly starting face-to-face negotiations with Syria after a third round of indirect peace talks mediated by Turkey ended with an agreement to meet again.

“With the Syrians, we are talking seriously and, in my estimation, very soon the negotiations will have to be direct,” Olmert told an economic conference in the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat. “They will not be able to continue in the mode in which they are currently being held.”

syria, france: Envoys meet Assad to boost ties

Friday, July 4th, 2008

President Bashar Assad receiving French emissary Claude Gueant in Damascus last week.

Armenia, Syria Sign Program of Cooperation in Education for 2008-2011

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

YEREVAN, June 27. /ARKA/. Armenian and Syrian ministers of education Spartak Seyranian and Ali Saadi signed a cooperation program for 2008-2011, the Press Service of Armenian Education Ministry.

Armenia, Syria Sign Program of Cooperation in Education for 2008-2011

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

YEREVAN, June 27. /ARKA/. Armenian and Syrian ministers of education Spartak Seyranian and Ali Saadi signed a cooperation program for 2008-2011, the Press Service of Armenian Education Ministry.

Direct Syria-Israel talks imminent, Turkish officials say

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Sources in the Turkish Foreign Ministry estimate that direct peace negotiations between Israel and Syria will follow the next round of indirect talks between the countries, London-based Arabic-language …

Self-Defeating Spy Games in Iran

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

By David Ignatius Wednesday, July 2, 2008; Page A15 NEW YORK — In the new cold war between America and Iran, the United States appears to be running some limited covert operations across the Iranian border.

Syria Wants Indian Institute of Technology on its Soil

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

A proposal to establish an IIT in Syrian capital Damascus, has been submitted by Syrian Technology and Communication minister Mr.Emad Sabouni accompanying the President of Syria, Mr.Bashar al-Assad, who is …

Israeli-Syrian cooperation rescues kidnapped prostitute

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Peace may seem distant, but cooperation between Israel and Syria has already begun.

UN agencies resume food relief for Iraqi refugees in Syria

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

The United Nations World Food Programme and the UN refugee agency said today that they have resumed food distributions to tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees in the Syrian capital, Damascus, after a two-month …