Syria on Thursday denied terrorism was behind a bomb blast that ripped through a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims near a major Shi'ite religious shrine i...
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 12.03.2009 | Home
Syria on Thursday denied terrorism was behind a bomb blast that ripped through a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims near a major Shi'ite religious shrine i...
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 12.03.2009 | Home
Several people killed and more injured in a blast in Damascus....
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 12.03.2009 | Home
Al Jazeera reports several people killed and injured in a blast in Damascus....
Margaret Aguirre | Posted 11.16.2009 | Impact
Fatma, 11, is one of a dozen children at the activities center International Medical Corps operates for Iraqi refugees. I can only imagine what horrors have unfolded before her eyes.
BBC NEWS | Posted 09.25.2009 | World
Iraq and Syria have both recalled their ambassadors in a deepening rift over claims Damascus was harbouring militants who bombed Baghdad....
AP | Posted 08.23.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — The State Department says the Obama administration's special Middle East envoy is heading to Syria. State Department spokesman P.J...
AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to return an ambassador to Syria, filling a post that has been vacant for four years and marking an ac...
The Independent | Independent | Posted 07.16.2009 | Home
In the summer of 2008 New Exposure, with the support of the UNHCR, worked with a group of young Iraqis who sought refuge in Damascus. British photog...
AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
VIENNA — The U.N nuclear agency on Friday reported its second unexplained find of uranium particles at a Syrian nuclear site, in a probe launche...
Freddy Deknatel | Posted 06.06.2009 | World
Today the curious traveler can get a government tour after securing an easy permit in Damascus. It is perhaps the best and most disturbing example of disaster tourism in the Middle East.
Freddy Deknatel | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living
In Baghdad, their eldest daughter had two cars. Six years later, the Iraqi couple moves their mattresses out of the bedroom each night to sleep on the living room floor.
ProPublica.org | ProPublica.org | Posted 05.02.2009 | Home
by Sheri Fink, ProPublica - Despite the relatively good news coming from Iraq, experts testifying at a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing yesterday...
Freddy Deknatel | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
Khalid and Hussein are friends from Baghdad, though Hussein in his forties is a bit older. He is Shi'i; Khalid is Sunni. None of this matters to them.
GlobalPost | Tom A. Peter | Posted 04.24.2009 | World
AMMAN -- At nine on a Thursday night, La Calle -- a popular bar in Amman -- is just starting to fill up. A Jordanian woman in a low-cut shirt share...
AFP | Posted 04.10.2009 | World
Syria launched its first stock exchange Tuesday after years of delays, in the latest step to liberalize its largely state-controlled economy. Finance ...
AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 04.03.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised Tuesday to work with the incoming Israeli government, but delivered a clear message...
Dan Pashman | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media
Facebook is cool enough, although I haven't become obsessed the way many of my friends have. I don't care what you ate for breakfast, you don't care what I ate for breakfast, let's not pretend.
AP | ALBERT AJI | Posted 03.21.2009 | World
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria must change its behavior if it wants its relations with Washington to change, two U.S. senators visiting the Middle East...
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 01.22.2009 | World
Egyptians have had a field day with the shoe-thrower story. According to one joke, the U.S. accused Syria of being behind the shoe attack, citing phone taps that intercepted the word "shoo" (Arabic for "what").
Deborah Amos | Posted 01.04.2009 | World
U.S. military officials and the Iraqi government claim the country is becoming a less dangerous place. For most Iraqi refugees, those assessments don't count for much. They listen to reports from the ground.
AP | ZEINA KARAM | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
DAMASCUS, Syria — One of the world's most wanted and elusive terrorists, Imad Mughniyeh, was killed in a car bombing in Syria nearly 15 years af...
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 12.03.2009 | Home