Iran Consolidates Grip on Hizbullah

7 September 2008, 9:14 pm

Iran is consolidating its grip on Hizbullah and has instituted a number of structural changes to the Lebanese group, under which Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah no longer enjoys exclusive command over its military ...... read more

U.S. embassy denies involvement in Israeli-Syrian peace talks

7 September 2008, 2:10 pm

The United States is not sending an envoy to take part in the next round of indirect Israeli-Syrianpeace talks in Turkey, a U.S. embassy official said Saturday night.... read more

Syrian peace proposals fired off to Israel

7 September 2008, 9:48 am

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has spoken of a list of proposals sent to Israel via Turkish mediators.... read more

Syria arrests Kurdish poet: rights group

7 September 2008, 2:01 am

Mohamed is a poet and a brother of Mohamed Mussa, the head of the banned Kurdish Left Party, who has been detained by the Syrian authorities since his arrest in Damascus in July, the rights group said in a ...... read more

Group calls for release of arrested Syrian Kurds

6 September 2008, 5:44 pm

Syria's National Organization for Human Rights is demanding the release of three Syrian Kurds they say were arrested by military intelligence.... read more

Israeli official says unaware of plan to send U.S. observer to talks with Syria

6 September 2008, 9:31 am

An Israeli official denied Saturday a report on an American observer being sent to the next round of indirect peace talks between Israel and Syria, local daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported on its website.... read more

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