Oct 26 2008
[Landis: Ali Khan is an Indian student in Damascus, He has been sending out emails describing his life in Syria. They have made their way to me. All are excellent. This one captures the rhythms and feel of Damascus.]
Oct 26 2008
The Bush administration seems to be ratcheting up action against Syria during its last days in power. The cross border raid undertaken on Sunday, which killed eight people, seems to fit into a broader pattern of the Bush administration initiating cross...
Oct 26 2008
Syria has increased the prices of fuel at the mid of this year. Syrians are depending on Diesel in heating during the Cold winter season. Syrian Government has decided to subsidize diesel prices by distributing Diesel tickets to sale diesel lower...
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Oct 24 2008
Saudi Arabia thinks Syria has not delivered enough to deserve Western diplomatic overtures and fears international rapprochement would do little to cut Damascus’ links with Iran, diplomats and analysts say.
Oct 24 2008
The pan-Arab daily al-Hayat quoted an unidentified European official as saying he doubts Syria’s “ability” to set up normal relations with Lebanon. He also doubted that the deployment of Syrian troops off Lebanon’s northern...
Oct 21 2008
I have already written about the Islam and how some of Islamic scholars who have kidnapped the Islamic views and adopt it to be suitable for its religious views. What I saw from the comments was something shocked me. Some of the comments thought...
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Oct 19 2008
Attempts to curb corruption in Syria have only scratched the surface of this all-pervasive problem, local analysts say. Syria was ranked 147 out of 180 countries in the international watchdog Transparency International’s 2008 corruption perception...
Oct 18 2008
A team of researchers from the University of Tsukuba has uncovered the remains of a crematorium thought to be about 8,600 years old, at the Tell el-Kerkh complex in northwest Syria, it has been learned.
Oct 17 2008
In conversation after conversation, in cocktail parties and sheesha cafes from Lebanon to Syria to Jordan, one question continues to pop up over and over again: What was up with the two Americans who illegally crossed the Lebanese border into Syria and...
Oct 16 2008
It is not known yet whether the bankruptcy of Kuifati Group which is specialized in Clothes is a direct consequence of the World Economical Crisis. The group which is operating its activities from Aleppo, Syria has a lot of Factories which are in...
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