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Syria on Monday rejected U.S. allegations that it is allowing terrorist networks to use its territory to attack Iraq.

DAMASCUS: The exiled political chief of the Palestinian Hamas movement on Sunday slammed Arab and Islamic states for keeping silent over Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.

Syrian President Bashar Assad has awarded former Lebanese prisoner Samir Kantar the country’s highest medal for spending nearly three decades in an Israeli jail.

But a funny thing happened to me while at the Atlanta airport on my way to the Conference: I was not allowed to exit the country.

By: Phil Sands, Foreign Correspondent Damascus - A report by UN inspectors into allegations that Damascus has been running a secret nuclear programme could yet turn into Syria’s most serious foreign policy …

DAMASCUS, 17 November 2008 - The World Food Programme has said it is a oehopefula of resolving a Syrian ban on imported rice that has left 30,000 Iraqi refugees facing much reduced food rations.

The United States criticized Syria at a security conference on Sunday for “giving safe haven to terrorists” attacking Iraq, weeks after a U.S. raid on Syria it said was targeting al Qaeda militants, delegates …

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday stressed the importance to continue dialogue among Arab countries in efforts to solve regional problems.

Archeologists have discovered the remains of a Christian church in Syria dating back approximately 1,500 years.

Search was still under way Thursday to locate three Jordanians who went missing in Syria earlier this month, according to a Syrian official.