DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The United States will take in "substantial" numbers of Iraqi refugees next year, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Eric Schwartz ...
The United States urged European countries and wealthy Arab states on Tuesday to boost their aid to the millions of displaced Iraqis, saying ...
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said Friday that he had no "Israeli partner" ready to push forward the Middle East peace process, rebuffing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer of talks. Accusing Netanyahu of not being serious about peace, Assad told reporters he was ...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy tried to breathe life into the Middle East peace process Friday, hosting his Syrian counterpart just two days after talks with the Israeli prime minister. President Bashar al-Assad arrived at the Elysee Palace in Paris boasting of a ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that U.S. President Barack Obama should come up with a firm plan of action to renew peace talks between Syria and Israel. In an interview with French daily Le Figaro published on Friday, Assad ...
Syrian President Bahar al-Assad hailed a "climate of trust" with France ahead of a visit on Friday, but bemoaned US President Barack Obama's lack of a Middle East peace action plan. Assad, due in Paris for talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy ...
President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday stepped up French diplomacy in the Middle East, holding talks with Palestinian and Israeli leaders ahead of an Elysee meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. With the Israeli-Palestinian peace effort in peril, Sarkozy spoke by phone with ...
The Lebanese and Syrian presidents vowed during talks in Damascus on Thursday to keep up coordination between the two Arab neighbours amid signs of improved ties. Syria's Bashar al-Assad and Michel Sleiman of Lebanon met just three days after the formation of ...
Lebanese President Michel Sleiman was on Thursday meeting with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, just days after the formation of a unity government in Lebanon, Sleiman's spokesman told AFP. "The president's day-long trip is part of a working visit," Adeeb ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Thursday it was ready to talk peace with Syria, whose leader is visiting Paris on the heels of talks there between President Nicolas Sarkozy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "The prime minister said that he ...
Syrian envoy acknowledges foreign fighters enter Iraq but denies any Syrian role Disputing an assertion by the top U.S. general in Iraq, Syria's ambassador to Washington on Wednesday denied that his government allows foreign fighters to cross the Syrian border into Iraq. ...
Netanyahu open to Syria talks but no breakthrough on settlement dispute with French leader Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, at odds over Jewish settlements, made no apparent dent in the dispute as they sought to find ways ...
