Syria

Syria wants Turkey to mediate talks with Israel (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, right, assistant Syrian Vice-President Lt. Gen. Hassan Turkmani, centre, and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, left, meet during the opening of the high-level Syrian-Turkish Strategic Ministerial Councilin, in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia, on Sunday Oct. 3, 2010. Syria wants Turkey to mediate its indirect peace talks with Israel and any other efforts would be subordinate to the Turkish role. Ankara mediated several rounds of indirect negotiations between the Mideast rivals in 2008 but the talks made no significant headway and were suspended following Israel's military offensive in Gaza the following year. Al-Moallem said Sunday any new indirect talks should be mediated by Turkey and must resume from the point where they left off. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)AP - Syria wants Turkey to mediate any new indirect peace talks with Israel, and other efforts would be subordinate to Ankara’s role, the Syrian foreign minister said Sunday.


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Iranian president stops in Syria on way to UN (AP)

September 18th, 2010

A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syria's President Bashar al-Assad , right, welcoming his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Damascus airport on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010, at the start of the latter's three-nation trip which includes Algeria and the United States where he is to attend next week's UN General Assembly meeting.(AP Photo/ Sana-HO).AP - On his way to the U.N. General Assembly, Iran’s president stopped in Syria Saturday for talks with an important ally in Tehran’s confrontation with the West.


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Lebanon PM: Wrong to accuse Syria in Hariri death (AP)

September 6th, 2010

AP - Lebanon’s Western-backed prime minister made a startling reversal Monday and said it was a mistake to accuse Syria of the massive 2005 truck bombing that killed his father,…

Lebanon PM: accusations against Syria were mistake (AP)

September 6th, 2010

AP - Lebanon’s prime minister says it was a mistake to accuse Syria of being behind the 2005 assassination of his father.

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Syria bans full Islamic face veils at universities (AP)

July 19th, 2010

A woman wears a burqa as she walks on a street in Saint-Denis, near Paris, April 2, 2010. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau/FilesAP - Syria has forbidden the country’s students and teachers from wearing the niqab — the full Islamic veil that reveals only a woman’s eyes — taking aim at a…

Iraqi cleric meets with PM candidate in Syria (AP)

July 19th, 2010

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, left, meets with Muqtada al-Sadr, one of Iraq's most powerful Shiite political clerics, right, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, July 19, 2010. Allawi and al-Sadr are on a current visit to Syria to discuss the deadlocked government in Baghdad.(AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)AP - Anti-American Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took a rare, public step into the political arena Monday, meeting in neighboring Syria with the man directly challenging Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri…

Israeli officials say Syria gives Hezbollah Scuds (AP)

April 14th, 2010

FILE - In this file photo taken Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006, a plane releases its payload to extinguish a fire caused by a rocket fired by Hezbollah guerrillas from south Lebanon toward northern Israel. Israeli defense officials say they believe that Hezbollah has acquired Scud missiles that might be able to hit all of Israel. The assessment came a day after Israel's president accused Syria of supplying the Lebanese guerrillas with the weapons for the first time. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)AP - Israeli defense officials said Wednesday they believe Hezbollah has Scud missiles that could hit all of Israel, a day after Israel’s president accused Syria of supplying the Lebanese…

Syria, Libya pressure Palestinians to quit talks (AP)

March 28th, 2010

** CORRECTS PHOTOGRAPHER'S BYLINE TO ABDEL MAGID AL FERGANY ** Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, right, receives Syrian President Bashar Assad ahead of the opening session of the Arab league Summit in Sirte, Libya Saturday, March 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid Al Fergany)AP - Syria and Libya teamed up Sunday to pressure the Palestinian leader to quit peace talks with Israel and return to violence, delegates to an Arab leadership summit said.


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Israel, Syria pursue nuclear-powered Mideast (AP)

March 9th, 2010

Israeli Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau speaks to media during an binternational/b conference on civilian nuclear energy, in Paris, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Mideast rivals Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new attention to its secretive nuclear activities. Landau said nuclear plants built in Israel will be subject to strict safety and security controls, and even said his country would like to build them in cooperation with scientists and engineers from 'our Arab neighbors.'(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - Is the Middle East about to go officially nuclear?


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Israel, Syria announce nuclear energy ambitions (AP)

March 9th, 2010

Israeli Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau speaks to media during an binternational/b conference on civilian nuclear energy, in Paris, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Mideast rivals Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new attention to its secretive nuclear activities. Landau said nuclear plants built in Israel will be subject to strict safety and security controls, and even said his country would like to build them in cooperation with scientists and engineers from 'our Arab neighbors.'(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - Mideast rivals Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new international attention to…

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