Syria appears to be summit wild card
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Iran and the United States are playing a complicated diplomatic game, jockeying for influence in Iraq as violence there spirals out of control. But there is one major wild-card in dueling summits planned for coming days: Syria.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad has agreed 'in principle' to a European presence on its border to halt arms shipments to Hezbollah, while Pakistan said Saturday that it would send hundreds of army engineers to ...
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Iran and Syria, both locked in rows with the United States, said on Wednesday they would form a common front to face challenges and threats.
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A Palestinian delegation headed by the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization PLO Mahmoud Abbas is to start a visit to Syria today.
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The United States and Europe must talk to Syria and Iran if they want a comprehensive solution to Iraq and other Middle East conflicts, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published on Friday.
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Lebanon&#39;s hothouse politics have been thrown into turmoil by Syria&#39;s insistence - at a suddenly summoned special cabinet meeting over the weekend - that the president
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The United Nations, the United States, Russia and the European Union (EU) have scheduled a meeting for next week to discuss the latest situation in the Middle East and
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Fearful of being left behind, Syrian President Bashar Assad has been saying something quite startling &#151; that he is willing to resume peace talks with Israel unconditionally.
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Poverty, health care and the Middle East top the agenda for a weeklong summit of the Nonaligned Movement that began Monday and will culminate with the meeting of 50 heads of state, including anti-American leaders from Iran and Venezuela.
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Regional talks with Syria as the "the main player" may be the last chance to help stabilize Iraq and begin moving it toward national reconciliation, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday.
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Syria convenes a conference of rejectionists demanding an end to peace talks with Israel
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that key Arab nations, including Syria, would be invited to President Bush's planned Mideast peace conference this fall and expressed hope they would attend.
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Syria is responding with a mixture of bravado and denial to mounting accusations by the United States and Iraq that it&#39;s a staging ground for the Iraqi insurgency with key
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrives in Burkina Faso tomorrow for a summit of French-speaking nations - this year, likely to be overshadowed by a deadly showdown between
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Syria Monday rapped the UN Security Council for passing a resolution which demands Syria&#39;s respect for Lebanon&#39;s sovereignty and withdrawal of its troops from the neighboring country, but turning a blind eye to Israeli &quot;aggression&quot; against the Palestinians
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North Korea&#039;s apparent preparations for its first long-range missile test-firing in eight years could be the wild card at this year&#039;s U.S.-European Union summit.
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VIENTIANE: Sixteen Asia-Pacific leaders converge on reclusive Laos this weekend for a major summit likely to be dominated by mounting concerns over Muslim unrest in Thailand and Myanmar&#39;s &quot;road map&quot; to democracy.