Lebanon's Hariri to visit Syria
AFP - 1 hour 34 minutes agoLebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Friday he will be visiting long-time foe Syria after parliament grants his government a vote of confidence, but gave no date for the trip.
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Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Friday he will be visiting long-time foe Syria after parliament grants his government a vote of confidence, but gave no date for the trip.
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A blast at a gas station in a Damascus suburb killed three people Thursday, gutting the back of an empty bus and blowing out nearby windows, officials said.
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — It was an accident, not terrorism. Syria's interior minister says an bus explosion at a surburban Damascus gas station was an accident that killed three people.
Government officials and witnesses gave conflicting reports about the cause of the explosion and the death toll.
Washington, 3 December (WashingtonTV)—Syria says an explosion that ripped through a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims in Damascus on Thursday was an accident and not a terrorist attack.
What's Your Reaction? DAMASCUS, Syria — Arab satellite television stations say a blast has targeted a busload of Iranian pilgrims in a Damascus suburb and are reporting casualties.
DAMASCUS, 3 December 2009 (IRIN) - A much tougher anti-smoking law in Syria, signed by President Bashar al-Assad and due to come into force in early 2010, will outlaw smoking in public places, including restaurants and bars, hospitals, sports halls and cinemas.
One of the bicycling world's most articulate travel authors passed away recently on what she said was going to be her last around-the-world bike tour. Anne Mustoe of Great Britain died in a hospital in Aleppo, Syria, on Nov. 10. She was 76. The former girl's school headmistress started her around-the-world bicycle travels when she was 54. She circled the globe twice -- once in each direction ...
Syria's interior minister says there has been a blast in Damascus and witnesses say it targeted Iranian pilgrims on a bus, killing at least six people.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad defended Iran's controversial nuclear programme on Thursday, during a visit to Damascus by Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, and promised that cooperation between the two countries would continue.
SALAMIEH, Syria, 2 December 2009 – Syria is experiencing a severe drought that is jeopardizing the livelihoods of thousands of families. After a second straight year of poor rainfall, this country in the heart of the fertile crescent is, in places, becoming barren.
An explosion killed or wounded dozens of passengers in a bus in the Syrian capital, Damascus, Thursday morning, an official in the president's office said.
An explosion that wrecked an Iranian bus in Damascus on Thursday and killed three people was not a terrorist act but a tyre exploding as it was being repaired, Interior Minister Saeed Sammur said.
A bus exploded in a busy Damascus suburb causing dozens of casualties, Al Jazeera television reported on Thursday.
Damascus - Speaking after a meeting with Iran's nuclear negotiator in Damascus, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday reiterated his support for Iran's right to nuclear technology and to enrich uranium. Al-Assad and Saeed Jalili, the secretary...
The newly elected chemical weapons chief says he will pursue the last seven holdouts — including Israel, Egypt and Syria — to get them to sign a disarmament treaty and submit weapons stockpiles for inspection.