Syria News

A Lebanese security source told Al-Akhbar newspaper that Telecommunications Minister Gebran Bassil, along with former Minister Michel Samaha, travelled to Syria on Thursday. “Bassil went to offer his condolences to the Syrian president’s political advisor, Bouthaina Shaaban, following...

Emerging from international isolation with a flurry of high-level Western visitors and ties boosted with Turkey, Syria has gained in confidence to the point of holding out on an EU partnership. The European Union hoped to sign a partnership accord on...

A source close to Marada Movement leader MP Sleiman Franjieh told Al-Hayat newspaper on Thursday that Franjieh stopped his mediation efforts to reach an agreement between Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri and Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun after Aoun...

Economic ties between Syria and Saudi Arabia have improved, though regional issues could undermine any substantial developments, analysts say. Syrian and Saudi Arabian relations were strained in the wake of a U.N. resolution calling for the disarming of Hezbollah in...

The idea was to follow in the footsteps of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddhafi, who was rewarded by the international community for his candor in a thawing of relations with the West. According to the report, North Korea was quick to...

An Ottawa city councillor is questioning why a provincial bill aimed at limiting corporate contributions to municipal election candidates doesn't just ban those donations. Some residents of a west-end Ottawa community housing development say unchecked mould in their buildings is...

A U.S. court of appeal on Monday denied Syrian-born Canadian Maher Arar the right to sue the United States over his deportation to Syria, where he was tortured. Two Ottawa swine flu immunization clinics began turning people away by about...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told As-Safir newspaper during his visit to Zagreb that the formation of the Lebanese government is “the responsibility of the Lebanese.” “Syria, Saudi Arabia and the summit that brought both the countries’ leaders together cannot be...