Lebanon's Hariri keen on improving ties with Syria
AFP - Tue Dec 8, 9:58 am ETLebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Tuesday his government was keen on improving its ties with Syria, strained since the killing of his father Rafiq Hariri in 2005.
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Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Tuesday his government was keen on improving its ties with Syria, strained since the killing of his father Rafiq Hariri in 2005.
BAGHDAD, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Tuesday's surge of spectacular car bombings across Baghdad that killed more than 100 people, the third such wave since August, underlines the inadequacies of Iraq's security apparatus and the deep-rooted opposition to the recent shift toward Iranian-friendly Shiite politics.
Damascus - A bus and a lorry collided Sunday on the road between Damascus and Baghdad, killing 12 people and injuring seven, the Syrian news agency reported. The accident took place on the Syrian side of the border, the SANA agency said, noting that ...
TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Russia is seeking to acquire more Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles under a $100 million deal that has more to do with bribing Moscow not to supply Iran with state-of-the-art air-defense missiles that could skewer any Israeli air assault than it has with dollars and cents.
DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria's interior minister said an explosion near a bus parked at a gas station in a Damascus suburb was an accident and three people were killed. The...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The steps taken by Ankara to address lingering issues with the Kurdish minority and separatists are considered helpful, the U.S. president said in Washington.
A powerful blast wrecked an Iranian pilgrim bus near a Shiite shrine in Damascus on Thursday, killing three people in an incident Syria said was caused by a tyre blow-out and not a terrorist attack.
Beirut - Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Friday he is planning visits to a series of Western and Arab countries, including Syria, assuming he wins a vote of confidence before the Lebanese parliament next week. We look positively at the step...
Washington, 4 December (WashingtonTV)—Iraq has purchased a 49 million dollar border surveillance system to better secure its borders with Iran and Syria, the US military said on Friday.
In a massive security breach, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) inadvertently posted online its airport screening procedures manual, including some of the most closely guarded secrets regarding special rules for diplomats and CIA and law enforcement officers.
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the West Monday for being too quick to censure Iran's nuclear program but told President Barack Obama that Ankara was prepared to mediate with Tehran.
A suicide car bomb flattened a court building and an explosives-rigged ambulance blew down walls like dominos near Baghdad's Finance Ministry during a wave of coordinated attacks Tuesday that targeted high-profile symbols of Iraqi authority.
Travelers stand at United Airlines' ticket counters at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Ill. WASHINGTON -- The federal government improperly posted an internal guide to its airport passenger screening procedures on the Internet in a way that could offer insight into how to sidestep security.
Moscow officials have already chased away clouds on public holidays. Now they're considering cloud seeding to keep snow-removal costs down in the winter. Neighboring towns may get dumped on. In the snow-hushed woods on Moscow's northern edge, scientists are decades deep into research on bending the weather to their will. They've been at it since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin paused long enough in ...
BAGHDAD — At least five car bombs ripped through neighborhoods across Baghdad on Tuesday morning, killing 127 Iraqis and prompting urgent questions about Iraq's security forces just as the country gears up for national elections early next year.
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