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Syrian journalist tells of being moved by the death of a woman in a Tehran street.

From : Armenian News Network Date : Mon, 22 Jun 2009 0:14:36 PDT A GUEST FROM THE "SECOND HOMELAND" By David Petrosyan June 22, 2009 High-ranking officials, heads of foreign states have been leaving Armenia out of attention in the past six months.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday extended the tenure of Mossad chief Meir Dagan for an eighth year, a testament to the spymaster's perceived success in waging shadow wars against Iran and its allies.

BEIRUT: A letter of introduction can be a valuable thing. The same is true of liner notes.

Saeed Meerkhan studied piano and classical music theory under various teachers in Damascus, and then went on to study oriental and jazz independently.

A A A' An Israeli tourism poster is being pulled from the London subway after the Syrian Embassy complained that the map on it appeared to show the Golan Heights and Palestinian territories within Israel's boundaries, officials said Friday.

Building facades in the Bab al-Tebbane neighborhood of Tripoli, capital of North Lebanon, are festooned with election posters At a Beirut news conference, a masked secret service operative shows the media a can of motor oil used to camouflage electronic devices found with Lebanese arrested on charges of spying for Israel With the legislative ...

Issue File Director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies The status of human rights in the Arab world has been in recent decline both at the civil and political level.

"We support Hizbullah because it fights Israel , and our relations with Iran are strategic," Syrian President Bashar Assad was quoted as saying by the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar. In an interview published on Friday, Assad also addressed the Shebaa Farms dispute, saying the border between Syria and Lebanon will be demarcated only after Israel ...

DOHA: Arab leaders have concluded their annual summit by showing their support for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir who is wanted for war crimes.

" Syrian President Bashar Assad referred in a recent interview to the New Yorker weekly to the possibility of peace with Israel , clarifying that he is interested in continuing the negotiations .

While Syria will face the twin challenges of falling domestic oil production and lower crude prices this year, the government has moved to reinforce the competitiveness of the national energy sector by improving efficiencies within the country's oil industry and encouraging domestic conservation.

I invited Abdullah Almalki to breakfast in Ottawa but he only took coffee. And while I wolfed down my all-English breakfast in the Chateau Laurier Hotel , he sipped gingerly at his cup with much on his mind.

Reporting from Beirut -- Syria launched its first stock exchange in decades today in a bid to upgrade its financial system and attract much-needed foreign investments to its growing economy.

A record three-year drought which has decimated the agriculture sector, which accounts for 23 percent of Syriaa s gross domestic product , is compounding the countrya s economic woes, including thousands of job ...

For two hours each day, Hassan Almrei sits tethered to an electrical outlet as he charges the clunky GPS bracelet permanently affixed to his right ankle.

Editor's note: s.d. liddick, a nationally acclaimed investigative reporter and regular contributor to San Diego Magazine , has gone international.

The Syrian authorities are hoping that the country's first-ever stock exchange will give a boost to the emerging private sector, although some experts say it could hardly have started up under more adverse ...

A A A' The U.N. nuclear agency says it has found new traces of uranium in samples taken from a Syrian site being investigated for possible hidden nuclear activities.

Syria's first stock exchange, which is currently operating in pilot trading, will be officially launched on March 9, media reports said on Friday.