8 March 2010, 5:10 pm
AnadoluJet launched its first direct flight between Ankara and Damascus on March 4 with a plane carrying 71 passengers on board.... Read More »
8 March 2010, 8:55 am
DAMASCUS: As many as 180,000 Iraqis living in Syria are expected to cast ballots as part of global out-of-country voting in this weekenda s general elections, Iraqa s electoral commission said on Monday.... Read More »
8 March 2010, 12:34 am
Syria: 4 hours, 24 minutes ago EFG Hermes, the leading investment bank in the Arab world, will enter the Syrian market with the opening of its full fledged office in the Syrian Arab Republic and the simultaneous launch of a new private equity fund that targets investments in the untapped Syrian mark... Read More »
7 March 2010, 4:22 pm
Turkey is determined to resume mediating indirect peace talks between Syria and Israel, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in Damascus Sunday.... Read More »
7 March 2010, 8:13 am
Last week, there was considerable fuss in much of the U.S. media because, just a couple of days after the Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Bill Burns, visited Damascus and announced that after a five-year absence Washington would finally be returning an ambassador to Syria, President ... Read More »
6 March 2010, 11:55 pm
As Iraq gears up for Sunday's election, a major litmus test in the country's nascent democracy, many Iraqi expatriates here are disillusioned with the process. But a fair number headed to the polls anyway during a three-day voting window that began Friday."I do not know if I will ever be able to go ... Read More »
6 March 2010, 3:47 pm
Syria is willing to consider peace and gradual normalization with Israel, according to Gabrielle Rifkind of the Oxford Research Group, who met with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem in December.... Read More »
6 March 2010, 7:25 am
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday tried to tone down rhetoric against Iran and Syria, less than a week after President Mahmoud Ahamedinejad visited Syria and from a podium flanked by the Syrian president and the leader of Hizbullah thumbed his nose at the United States and Israel.... Read More »
5 March 2010, 11:05 pm
Between 100,000 and 150,000 Iraqis will start voting in Syria for the Iraqi parliamentary elections from Friday to Sunday, the Head of Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission in Syria, Haidar Abu Allawi, told Xinhua Thursday.... Read More »
5 March 2010, 6:24 pm
After more than a year in office, the Obama foreign policy based on hope has run its course.... Read More »