Israel 'tests' Syria peace aims
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Israel has sent secret messages to Syria about renewing peace talks, Israel's deputy PM confirms.
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Israel threatened Syria Wednesday  over what officials said was complicity in Palestinian suicide  bombings that killed 16 people in the first such attacks in the  Jewish state in nearly six months.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  poured cold water on Tuesday on recent international efforts to  restart stalled peace talks with Syria, saying there was "no  possibility" of returning to previous discussions.
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Comments by United Nations special envoy to the Middle East Terje Roed-Larsen regarding Syrian President Bashar Assad&#39;s willingness to resume peace talks with Israel were scoffed at yesterday by senior political sources in Jerusalem.
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By Inigo Gilmore in Herzliya and Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor. Syria accused Israel last night of planting a bomb in Damascus in an attempt to kill a member of the Hamas militant group.
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A recent flurry of secret messages from Israel to Syria signaled Israel's willingness to give up the disputed Golan Heights in return for a peace agreement, an Israeli newspaper reported Friday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rejected reported peace overtures by Syria on Wednesday, saying it had to crack down on Islamic militant groups under its control before negotiations that stalled in 2000 could resume.
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Israel rejected a Syrian offer for an unconditional resumption of peace talks on Wednesday,dismissing it as &quot;nothing new&quot;.
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Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu has broken an official silence over Syria's accusations that Israel bombed its territory, hinting the reported mission was of strategic significance and a success.
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Israeli opposition leader, Binyamin Netanyahu, makes an apparent admission of an Israeli raid on Syria.
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Israel's defense minister on Wednesday accused Syria of allowing the rearmament of Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon and said Israel has the right to act "forcefully" against the Shiite militia to counter the threat.
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Israeli security sources confirmed on Sunday that Israel was behind a car bombing in the Syrian capital of Damascus that killed a senior Hamas official, reported the Israeli website of Ha&#39;aretz.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday he opposed peace talks with Syria while it continued to host Palestinian militant groups in Damascus.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad is ready to resume peace talks with Israel "without conditions," a top U.N. envoy said Wednesday. It was not immediately clear if Damascus dropped its demand that talks resume from the point where they broke off with Israel four years ago.
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U.S. officials on Wednesday confirmed Israel launched air strikes against Syria last week and said they were to target weapons Israel believes were headed for the militant group Hezbollah.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday he respected Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and was prepared to hold peace talks with him, following reports of an Israeli air raid on Syria this month.
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This week&#39;s deadly twin suicide attack in the southern Israeli town of Beer Sheva has sparked a war of words between Israel and Syria, with senior officials