BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The US State Department turns down a request by a Syrian delegation to meet a top US official despite initially saying it would happen.
The Economist (Free subscription) | yesterday
The authorities don't want you to read or see too much FOR "defaming and insulting the administrative bodies of the state", the president of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression, Mazen Darwish, was recently sentenced to a salutary ten days in jail. His real crime was to report on riots in an industrial town near Damascus, Syria's capital. Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based lobby,...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: Reuters By James Vicini WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Wednesday he had rejected a request from lawmakers that an outside special counsel investigate the case ...
Doc's Talk (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Huda al Husseini Asharq Alawsat The Lebanese have become thick-skinned and we hope that we can say the same of French President Nicholas Sarkozy. His pledge to visit Damascus this coming 8 September leaves approximately two months to test Syria’s intentions with regards to establishing diplomatic relations with Lebanon. Hopefully, his schedule will include passing by the ‘Lebanese embassy’ in Damascus...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Syria received the bodies of 114 Arab fighters handed over by Israel as part of last week's prisoner exchange.
YID With LID (Free subscription) | yesterday
Almost Eleven Months ago we were told that SOMETHING happened in the Syrian desert. This is how the story evolved (according to Syria). First they said that the IAF dropped a fuel tank in the Syrian desert, then they bombed a strategic location, then they bombed a warehouse, then Syria said that there was NO Raid. Afterwards they blamed the US for the attacks, and I believe the last thing they said...
Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | yesterday
7/24/08 *France return for Iraqi oil through Syria* Damascus, Paris and neighbors agencies on the confidential French (Convention Strategy) with Syria and Iraq, building a new pipeline parallel to the line of Kirkuk Banias on the export of Iraqi oil, the same line, which subdivided it, near...
"We Have Some Planes" (Free subscription) | yesterday
YID With LID: Israel's Strike on Syria The Full Story
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Escaping The Sand Storms And Heat.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Escaping The Sand Storms And Heat.
LAST KICK (Free subscription) | yesterday
7/23/2008 Afshin Afshar, lastkick.com Sepahan FC of Esfahan tied their opening match of the multi-national eight club tournament in Homs, Syria. Playing against Al-Majd of Syria, the Esfahan side jumped ahead thanks to a first half goal by Hadi Asghari and managed to maintain the lead going into the break. However, Portuguese defensive midfielder Armando Miguel Correia de [...]
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
March 14 Forces leader Samir Geagea has called the statement by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Mu'alem that handing over the Shaba'a Farms to U.N. custodianship will not end the occupation (see "Syrian FM: Don't Know Whether ... July 23, 2008, 3:41 pm
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
With Barack Obama in the midst of his Middle East tour, the McCain campaign is making a concerted effort to cast him as a danger to the region. The latest attempt came on a conference call in which Congressman Peter Hoekstra, a hardline Republican, suggested that had Obama been president these past two years, the Syrian government would be measurably closer to achieving a nuclear weapon. Referencing...
YID With LID (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Robert Mugabe's murderous iron-fisted rule has subjected Zimbabwe to a reign of terror for almost three decades. While the MSM reported the way he used violence to overturn an election that he lost, his horrors did not start with this most recent election: Lela Kogbara, Chair of ACTSA (Action for Southern Africa) has said: "As with every oppressive regime women and workers are left bearing the brunt....
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
(New York, July 22, 2008) The Syrian government should order an independent investigation into the deadly shooting of inmates by military police at Sednaya prison two weeks ago and make the findings public, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch also called on the authorities to immediately make public the names of those killed or injured in the incident.
