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Beirut6
  • To contact the reporter on this story: Massoud A. Derhally in Beirut, Lebanon at [email protected] . (transasianaxis.com)
  • Our intelligence sources add that US Ambassador to Beirut David Hale has been active in preparing these meetings and implementing the understandings they reach. (debka.com)
  • Highlighting the visit in Beirut, Lebanon, Rev. István Szabó signed a Memorandum of Commitment with Rev. Megreditch Karagoezian and Rev. Harout Selimian, representing the partnership between the RCH and the UAECNE and the Armenian Evangelical Community in Syria. (reformatus.hu)
  • The Brit- ish ambassador in Beirut has warned that his country's new Cyprus policy may tie up forces "earmarked for possible deployment in Lebanon. (cia.gov)
  • Beirut, SANA- Syria is participating in the 2nd Arab Forum for Equality organized by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) in Beirut, under the title "One Voice. (beirutnews.net)
  • Another American student in Syria sent me this (I use with his/her permission): "I'm an American student conducting some research for my PhD in Beirut and traveled to Syria on Wednesday because my Lebanese visa was about to expire and I needed a new one. (blogspot.com)
Imad Moustapha2
  • Syria's ambassador, Imad Moustapha, wrote about it in his blog: "The huge attendance was a testimony to how Syria is regarded by the American people despite years of trying to distort its image, particularly during the Bush era… The implication of their heavy attendance was both a rebuke to the Bush legacy, and a strong condoning of President Obama's policies of dialogue and respect. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
  • Two weeks after Kerry's Syrian jaunt-during which he called upon the U.S. to ease sanctions on Damascus and heaped praise on Syria for opening a stock market and sending an ambassador to Iraq-officials from the State Department sat down for talks with Syrian Ambassador Imad Moustapha in Washington. (thetrumpet.com)
Damascus5
  • On 23 August 1993 a joint Japan-Syria excavation team discovered fossilized Paleolithic human remains at the Dederiyeh Cave some 400 km north of Damascus. (wikipedia.org)
  • Syria is a key to the Middle East conflict because Damascus hosts the leaders of Hamas and supports Hezbollah, an anti-Israeli Shi'ite group. (joshualandis.com)
  • Reel Festivals 2011 had planned part of its programme in Damascus as part of a trilateral cultural exchange between Scotland, Lebanon and Syria. (uscpublicdiplomacy.org)
  • Additionally, the former offshoot of al-Qaeda in Syria officially thanked Turkey for the assistance in the battle against the Damascus government. (thesaker.is)
  • But now that the Syrian regime is gaining ground, the American policy is focused on stopping Assad from retaking these wells,' says an Arab nation's ambassador in Damascus. (worldcrunch.com)
Syria's2
  • Critics of the current policy of isolation argue that it hasn't worked, that US interests with regards to Syria go beyond Lebanon and that sidelining Syria invites more interference and destabilization on Syria's part. (joshualandis.com)
  • It added that the delegation discussed with Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ambassador Haifa Abu Ghazaleh many issues related to activating Syria's participation within the social affairs sector at the league, in a way that would enhance bilateral and multilateral cooperation relations with Arab countries. (beirutnews.net)
Iraq6
  • Now, thanks to its policy choices, alliances, geographic location and spoiler capacity, Syria is enmeshed in all the current and potential conflicts in the Middle East: Lebanon, Israel-Palestine, Iraq and Iran. (joshualandis.com)
  • It is from this period that the name Syria first emerges, but not in relation to modern Syria, but as an Indo-European corruption of Assyria, which in fact encompassed the modern regions of northern Iraq, north east Syria, south east Turkey and the northwestern fringe of Iran. (wikipedia.org)
  • This echoes remarks made by officials of the Obama administration, in which Malley also served, about the need to accommodate Iran, to persuade Saudi Arabia to "learn to share the region" with Tehran and come to some sort of agreement over Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Remember that Iran uses Iraq and Syria as a thoroughfare, like their own terror-highway to Lebanon. (americanrevivalpress.org)
  • They supply their proxy, Hezbollah thru Iraq and Syria but in Syria they have large weapons depots, manufacturing facilities and more. (americanrevivalpress.org)
  • Iraq, Libya and Syria remain profoundly unstable. (therealnews.com)
Assad3
  • Its military intervention on the side of Bashar Assad in the last year is credited with turning the Syrian army's fortunes around from near defeat in 2013 to partial triumph in key areas of Syria this year. (debka.com)
  • Moscow wrested a deal from Assad according to which it's expected to make a clean sweep and operate most future oil production in Syria, leaving the mines, agriculture and certain refinery activities to the Iranians. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Rather than confront Syria about its bad behavior, the administration favors a policy based on making believe that in his hearts of hearts, Assad is a liberal democrat who aspires to peace, and hope, and change. (thetrumpet.com)
Hezbollah7
  • Exchanges of fire with Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group have occurred on a near-daily basis since the war began. (yahoo.com)
  • The leaders of Hamas is right now in Lebanon meeting with the leader of Hezbollah, both groups are labeled terrorist organizations by the US government and many governments of the world. (americanrevivalpress.org)
  • UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday it will take all necessary measures to defend itself after an exchange of fire between Hezbollah militants and Israel that has raised the threat of a full-blown conflict. (yahoo.com)
  • Israel will not stand by as Hezbollah targets Israelis,' Israel's U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor said in a letter to the Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. (yahoo.com)
  • Two Israeli soldiers and a Spanish peacekeeper were killed when Hezbollah fired a missile at a convoy of Israeli military vehicles at the Lebanon border. (yahoo.com)
  • Resolution 1701 halted the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war in southern Lebanon. (yahoo.com)
  • Hezbollah said it carried out Wednesday's attack, which appeared to be in retaliation for a Jan. 18 Israeli air strike in southern Syria that killed several Hezbollah members and an Iranian general. (yahoo.com)
Embassy1
  • The U.S. Ambassador and other embassy officers frequently encouraged senior government officials in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Religious Affairs, Justice, and Interior to promote religious tolerance and discussed the difficulties Ahmadis, Christians, and other religious minority groups faced in registering as associations, importing religious materials, and obtaining visas. (state.gov)
Officials1
  • Practices which came into being after independence betrayed this tendency: one-party elections in Syria, ballots for lesser officials but not for the head of government in Egypt, political parties representing religious groups in Lebanon, democracy alternating with military rule in Turkey, and manipulated elections in revolutionary Iran. (danielpipes.org)
Egypt2
  • On 21 February 1958, however, Syria merged with Egypt to create the United Arab Republic after plebiscitary ratification of the merger by both countries' nations, but seceded from it in 1961, thereby recovering its full independence. (wikipedia.org)
  • The rapprochement intensified further last week at a conference in Egypt when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took time to shake hands and exchange a few words with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem. (thetrumpet.com)
Lebanon's2
  • Depending on Syrian behavior (i.e. whether Syria will recognize a president acceptable to all Lebanese factions who also upholds Lebanon's responsibilities toward the international community and protects its full sovereignty or even a president who enjoys the support of a majority of parliamentarians), these elections could open a new phase not only in bilateral relations between Syria and Lebanon but also between Syria and the rest of the world. (joshualandis.com)
  • Lebanon's ambassador to the UK, Rami Mortada, called on Israel to end its strikes on his country. (yahoo.com)
Iran3
  • Syria is not the ultimate threat to either the region or US interests, nor does it pose the kind of ideological, strategic and political challenge that Iran does. (joshualandis.com)
  • Iran also determines which weapons are supplied to the Hizballah units fighting in Syria, in which sectors they fight and how to respond to his pleas for reinforcements. (debka.com)
  • Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's new ambassador to Iran Abdullah bin Saud Al-Anazi last week his credentials to Tehran's minister of foreign affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, after a China-brokered deal in April ended years of political rift between the two countries. (arabnews.com)
Syrian10
  • Nowhere has Syrian influence been as visible and disruptive as in Lebanon. (joshualandis.com)
  • After occupying (and stabilizing) Lebanon for 15 years with an international cover, Syrian heavy-handedness and mismanagement of Lebanese politics has created deep resentment against Syria which cuts across sectarian lines. (joshualandis.com)
  • The history of Syria covers events which occurred on the territory of the present Syrian Arab Republic and events which occurred in the region of Syria. (wikipedia.org)
  • Syria is considered to have emerged as an independent country for the first time on 24 October 1945, upon the signing of the United Nations Charter by the Syrian government, effectively ending France's mandate by the League of Nations to "render administrative advice and assistance to the population" of Syria, which came in effect in April 1946. (wikipedia.org)
  • At present, Syria is fractured between rival forces due to the Syrian Civil War. (wikipedia.org)
  • White House spokesman Robert Gibbs explained, "If confirmed by the Senate, Ambassador Ford will engage the Syrian government on how we can enhance relations, while addressing areas of ongoing concern. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
  • After the RCH delegation visit to Lebanon and Syria in 2017 and the official visit of the Syrian Reformed Church leaders to Hungary in 2018, RCH Presiding Bishop István Szabó, together with representatives of the RCH church districts, presbyteries, local churches, Károli Gáspár University and the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid (HRCA) are in Lebanon and will be visiting Syria from March 26 to April 1, 2019. (reformatus.hu)
  • President Obama himself signaled where he believes the U.S. -Syrian relationship is headed by authorizing the export of American parts to Syria for its aging fleet of Boeing 747 aircraft. (thetrumpet.com)
  • This undermines the five-year-old Syrian Accountability Act that imposes sanctions on trade with Syria. (thetrumpet.com)
  • The problem is, Washington's Syrian embrace is based on the fundamental misconception that Syria has an unclenched fist. (thetrumpet.com)
Bilateral1
  • According to the ministry, the delegation also discussed with Palestinian Social Development Minister, Dr. Ahmed Majdalani, and Undersecretary of Social Affairs Ministry in Sudan, Dr. Jamal Al-Nabil, issues related to exchange of experiences in social development field, economic relations, joint coordination, and bilateral cooperation in the fields of social work. (beirutnews.net)
America's2
  • Critics must also acknowledge that US policy toward Syria is not unilateral or even controversial with America's allies. (joshualandis.com)
  • This paradigm shift put Syria back on America's radar because it met the two criteria set out by the White House: Syria supported terrorism as a matter of official state policy and it was developing WMD. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
Sanctions1
Obama8
  • Kerry's trip to Syria and Lebanon is a wise move by Obama. (joshualandis.com)
  • Then he will move on to Syria - a country the Bush administration treated like a rogue regime, but which the Obama administration has sought to engage. (joshualandis.com)
  • When coercive power had a legitimate role, the Obama administration refused to use it - most notoriously over Syria in 2014. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Now, in 2014, the Obama administration appears to have taken his doctrine on board for Lebanon and Syria, by granting the Lebanese Hizballah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah the same status as Holbrooke advised for Taliban. (debka.com)
  • It was therefore not surprising when on February 16, 2010, Obama named a new ambassador to Syria. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
  • In February 2010, President Obama followed through on his promise to name a new ambassador to Syria and selected Robert Ford to fill the post. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
  • The Obama administration has deployed more high-level American dignitaries to Syria in the last four weeks than the Bush administration did in the previous four years . (thetrumpet.com)
  • No one is surprised to see the Obama administration rushing to make reparations with Syria. (thetrumpet.com)
Shi'ite1
  • While Israeli forces have bombed, shelled and raided Palestinian and Shi'ite positions in Lebanon, and have sent hit teams to kill Palestinian guerrilla leaders in other countries, they have never attacked Abu Nidal. (sott.net)
Israel11
  • Since 2005, Lebanon has experienced political paralysis, economic regression, a devastating war with Israel, various grave security incidents, including a campaign of political assassination and intimidation and a 3.5 month-long mini-war against Sunni jihadists. (joshualandis.com)
  • Marouf Bakhit was previously an ambassador to Israel and served as premier in the wake of terrorist attacks in Jordan that targeted several hotels in the capital, Amman. (transasianaxis.com)
  • Also, Syria and Israel have been embroiled in a dispute over Shebaa Farms, a tiny, well-watered slice of land that Syria and Lebanon say is Lebanese territory which is occupied by Israel. (joshualandis.com)
  • The Israeli military struck targets in Lebanon and Syria on Sunday after projectiles were fired into Israel. (kdvr.com)
  • Clashes have been taking place across Israel's tense border with Lebanon since the onset of the Hamas-Israel war, mostly contained to several border towns. (kdvr.com)
  • Rockets Firing on Israel from Lebanon Right Now! (americanrevivalpress.org)
  • The last time this many rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel was the last Lebanon war in 2006. (americanrevivalpress.org)
  • He was the US Ambassador to Israel during Rabin's second term as Prime Minister. (historycentral.com)
  • Even knowing the record of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) toward Israel had not prepared me to think that it terrorized Palestinians, too - yet such, it turned out, had been the case in South Lebanon from 1975 to 1982. (danielpipes.org)
  • The continued fever pitch of PLO rhetoric in the aftermath of Lebanon raised further questions: were PLO leaders not aware of the Israeli bulldozers at work on the West Bank, and the short time left before that region became irreversibly part of Israel? (danielpipes.org)
  • 25 Dec . A secret meeting in Tel Aviv last Thursday, Dec. 16 between the high-ranking Russian emissary Mikhail Margelov and representatives of the South Sudanese semi-autonomous government so infuriated Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak that he ordered his intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman to hit back by accusing Israel of recruiting Egyptian agents to spy on Lebanon and Syria. (debka.com)
Idlib3
  • The ruins of Ebla, near Idlib in northern Syria, were discovered and excavated in 1975. (wikipedia.org)
  • The statement came as the Turkish Armed Forces continued their military buildup in Greater Idlib sending more and more troops and equipment to Syria. (thesaker.is)
  • The Turkish leader too quickly forgot that his forces recently failed to turn into reality the previous batch of threats against Syria and promises regarding a swift and easy victory in Idlib. (thesaker.is)
Militants1
  • But as well as continuing to strike targets in Gaza, Israeli jets struck two airports in Syria and a mosque in the occupied West Bank allegedly used by militants. (yahoo.com)
Saudi3
  • On February 26, India and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation in military training, logistics supplies and exchange of defence-related information. (com.pk)
  • It is also believed in administration circles that the secret Saudi exchanges with Tehran (first revealed by DEBKA Weekly 627 from March 14) could lead to Riyadh eventually accepting Hizballah's dominant influence in Syria and Lebanon. (debka.com)
  • RIYADH: Saudi Deputy Minister for Consular Affairs Ambassador Ali Al-Yousef on Sunday received Iran's envoy to the Kingdom, Alireza Enayati. (arabnews.com)
Qatar1
  • On this March 5, the kingdom led two other members of the six-member GCC, namely the UAE and Bahrain, to withdraw their ambassadors from Qatar, risking the survival of the GCC. (com.pk)
Missiles3
  • Russia's ambassador to Lebanon, Alexander Zasypkin, said any US missiles fired at Syria would be shot down and the launch sites targeted. (buzzfeednews.com)
  • Israel's military provided video of multiple strikes inside Lebanon, showing explosions erupting among trees and missiles hitting a building on a hillside. (kdvr.com)
  • On Sunday evening, Hamas said its forces in Lebanon had fired 16 missiles at the northern Israeli town of Nahariya. (kdvr.com)
Interference1
  • A deal on the Golan is the key to prosperity in the region, defusing hostilities, and resolving much of the outside interference in Lebanon. (joshualandis.com)
Israeli1
  • Kerry departs today to the region "to investigate the political situation in Syria and Lebanon and the prospects for progress in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process," according to a schedule provided by his office. (joshualandis.com)
Indonesia1
Facebook1
Situations1
  • According to a number of Mid East intelligence sources, two such meetings have since been held and initial US-Hizballah understandings reached on the unfolding situations in Syria and Lebanon. (debka.com)
Algeria1
  • The VIP section was overflowing with delegates from the government, National, Para and Special Olympic Committees, Presidents of all Arab federations present and it was a festival atmosphere in the stadium especially when teams like Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Syria, Lebanon and the host country, UAE, competed for fame and glory. (muaythai.sport)
Participation1
  • This date and location has been selected to allow the participation and exchanges with EU member states water directors that will meet the following days for their regular bi-annual meetings. (semide.net)
Stability2
Nuclear3
  • First, Syria has yet to come clean about its dabbling with a clandestine nuclear program-much less stop it. (thetrumpet.com)
  • He also reported that Syria banned UN nuclear inspectors from the site and from three other suspected nuclear sites. (thetrumpet.com)
  • The iaea report, Schulte said, " contributes to the growing evidence of clandestine nuclear activities in Syria . (thetrumpet.com)
Lebanese Army1
  • Hunting two French and Lebanese birds with one shot, the kingdom early last January pledged a $ 3 billion royal grant, estimated to be two times the entire military budget of Lebanon, to buy French weapons for the Lebanese Army. (com.pk)
Nations1
  • Any other signs of manipulating AIS transponders should be considered red flags for potential illicit activity," the New York-based group said in its letter signed by Mark Wallace, a former US ambassador to the United Nations. (timesofisrael.com)
Prospects1
  • But the prospects for such a positive outcome are dim, partly because of Syria, which perceives these elections as an opportunity to defeat its Lebanese and foreign opponents with the support of its Lebanese allies and which fears that a victory of its foes will further weaken its hand. (joshualandis.com)
Forces1
  • ASIA-AFRICA *Lebanon: Rebel forces have resumed the offensive in northern and southern Lebanon. (cia.gov)
Presence1
  • All the players involved must know that we feel free to do whatever is in our power to prevent a permanent Iranian presence in Syria. (dailyalert.org)
Official1
  • The official confirmed that Pakistan's agreement, during Prince Salman's visit, to support the establishment of a "transitional governing body" in Syria was an important aspect of the deal. (com.pk)
Iranian1
  • And of course we cannot tolerate the idea of an [Iranian] airbase or a naval base in Syria. (dailyalert.org)
Bush1
  • Moustapha stressed that, despite the attempts of the Bush administration to bring about a change in its policy, Syria never "submitted to this blackmail. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
Cyprus1
  • The US Navy announced that the USS Donald Cook left port in Cyprus on Monday, moving within striking distance of Syria in the eastern Mediterranean. (buzzfeednews.com)
Agreement1
  • He then goes into a narrative of the Prime Minister Rabin's attempt to reach an agreement with Syria. (historycentral.com)
Search1
  • Until a few years ago Syria was a partner of the United States in the search for peace. (joshualandis.com)
American1
  • The problem is that the areas of "concern" with the Asad regime are deep and will not be improved or resolved by the return of an American ambassador. (jewishpolicycenter.org)
Page1
Military1
Resume1
  • Today or yesterday the Saudi's and Iranians agreed to complete peace, to exchange ambassadors, to resume flights to each others countries, to open trade, etc. (americanrevivalpress.org)
Peace2
  • When Barak becomes Prime Minister Indyk resumes his narrative of the peace process- when Barak begins his negotiations with Syria. (historycentral.com)
  • As 'Ambassadors for Christ' in promoting peace and reconciliation, we strictly condemn and oppose any form of religious discrimination, oppression and persecution. (reformatus.hu)
Visit3
  • The President of the Asian and Arab Muaythai Federation HE Abdullah Al Neyadi took time out to visit the athletes before the finals wishing them good luck and thanked them for being such outstanding ambassadors for Muaythai and the Arab world. (muaythai.sport)
  • During the visit to NEST, the possibilities of study and exchange programs between the theological academies of the churches were discussed. (reformatus.hu)
  • The next day, Clinton announced that she had scheduled two senior delegates to visit Syria for high-level meetings. (thetrumpet.com)
Complete1
Cultural exchange1
  • Twenty countries came together in sporting and cultural exchange and the sportsmanship and the respect showed by the athletes highlights the IFMA principle of unity in diversity. (muaythai.sport)
Region1
  • The region was fought over by the rival empires of the Hittites, Egyptians, Assyrians and Mitanni between the 15th and 13th centuries BCE, with the Middle Assyrian Empire (1365-1050 BCE) eventually left controlling Syria. (wikipedia.org)
Week1
News1
  • I doubt that I was alone in being perplexed by the news from Lebanon during the summer of 1982. (danielpipes.org)
Month1
  • The Scottish organisers of an international cultural festival have been forced to abandon plans to stage events in Syria next month. (uscpublicdiplomacy.org)