• In Syria and Lebanon, dual courts safeguard the judicial autonomy of clerics and enable them to resist pressures for family law reform more forcefully. (brill.com)
  • Since the deaths last Wednesday of Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin and French photographer Rémi Ochlik, the ICRC has been trying to get scores of wounded out of Syria to hospitals in Lebanon. (warnewsradio.org)
  • Prices of basic items such as cooking oil, sugar, bread, and rice have surged, and the added damage from the war has squeezed people's finances, especially in Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria. (fanack.com)
  • Why were the Turks kidnapped in Lebanon and who are the Liwaa Asifat al-Shamal who are holding the Shiites in Syria. (joshualandis.com)
  • As a result of the current conflict millions of Syrians have been internally displaced, over 100,000 have been killed and millions more are in camps in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt. (martenscentre.eu)
  • Waterpipe tobacco was taxed at about half of rate of cigarettes in Egypt , Jordan , Lebanon and Turkey , and in Lebanon waterpipe tobacco was exempt from the most recent tax increase on tobacco. (who.int)
  • Lebanon is also one of the countries that receives the highest number of refugees from Syria, and today nearly 1.5 million refugees live here - in a country with approximately 4.5 million citizens. (lu.se)
  • This paper describes the political climate and attitudes of the people of Syria, Jordan, and Egypt as observed during the author's travels and interviews in the Middle East in November 1991. (rand.org)
  • Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Monday , making him the highest-level Egyptian official to visit Syria since war broke out in the country in 2011. (antiwar.com)
  • Despite Egypt's military coup in 2013 and its reopening of its embassy in Syria that year, Sisi's government still kept its distance from Assad, and has not yet fully restored relations. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • This conference, although certainly difficult, will be a beginning process to find a political settlement to the "hierarchy of horribles" that the Assad Regime has perpetrated upon the People of Syria. (newsblaze.com)
  • Translated: it is the National Coalition's expectation that Geneva-2 will end with the goal of a transitional government that does not include President Assad , and that they [People of Syria] should be able to enjoy transparent elections at all costs. (newsblaze.com)
  • CAIRO, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Egypt is following with great concern the recent Iranian and Turkish attacks in Iraq and Syria, the Egyptian foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. (news.cn)
  • Those assaults violate the sovereignty of Iraq and Syria," the statement said. (news.cn)
  • Iranian and Turkish forces frequently attack the military bases of Kurdish militants in Syria and Iraq, accusing them of carrying out attacks in Iran and Türkiye. (news.cn)
  • An aerial operation was mounted by Türkiye on Sunday against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq. (news.cn)
  • The same with Syria and Iraq," he said. (newarab.com)
  • Watch now MENA Regional Stage Episode 2 and hear 4 amazing startup pitches from Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and Iraq. (seedstars.com)
  • The resolution, drafted by Germany, Belgium and Kuwait, would have allowed humanitarian deliveries to Syria from two locations in Turkey and one in Iraq. (dw.com)
  • China's People's Daily described US secretary of state Hillary Clinton's criticisms of Beijing's stance on Syria "super arrogant" and argued that, after the Iraq war, the United States has no right to speak for Arab people. (warnewsradio.org)
  • In an interview with PBS television's Charlie Rose ahead of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, President Mohamed Morsi said the diplomatic quartet of Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey could help end the 18-month-old conflict in Syria. (ahram.org.eg)
  • Morsi said he had brought together officials from Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey in a bid to find a solution to the conflict, in which Syrian activists say more than 29,000 people have been killed. (ahram.org.eg)
  • Sisi's government had been supported by billions of dollars in aid from Saudi Arabia, but ties appear to have cooled between the two countries amid disagreements over Syria. (newarab.com)
  • There is something surreal about a group of "friends" promoting change in Syria that includes so many autocrats and, as one of its leading lights, the country most notorious for resisting progress: Saudi Arabia. (warnewsradio.org)
  • Meanwhile Qatar, a less oppressive autocracy than Saudi Arabia but an autocracy nevertheless, called for the creation of "an Arab force" for Syria. (warnewsradio.org)
  • Egypt's Foreign Minister has visited Syria and Turkiye today in the first of such visits in a decade, signalling greater chances of normalisation and the resumption of diplomatic relations. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • As various uprisings have occurred in the middle east, we've seen the regimes in Egypt and Libya try disconnecting the entire country from the internet, after realizing that opposition forces were making use of the internet to coordinate. (techdirt.com)
  • Syria was agreed to become a French mandate, despite later conflict between French forces and Syrian rebels. (wikipedia.org)
  • Of the three million people currently in Idlib, one million have already moved several times over the seven years that Syria has been embroiled in conflict. (aljazeera.com)
  • The conflict in Syria has displaced millions of people and killed over 370,000 since it began in 2011. (dw.com)
  • More than 2.2 million people affected by the conflict are now refugees in neighboring countries, while in Syria an additional 6.5 million people are displaced within Syria and 9.3 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. (newsblaze.com)
  • The Arab Spring in Syria has led to a complex and multi-strand conflict. (martenscentre.eu)
  • Washington's foreign policy establishment is determined to escalate U.S. military attacks in Syria even though that won't resolve the conflict and will only get more people killed, a dilemma addressed by Daniel Lazare. (consortiumnews.com)
  • This spring, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law launched a new project that aims to develop a human rights-based corps of Syrian legal practitioners who can contribute to shaping the future of post-conflict Syria. (lu.se)
  • Syria has an embassy in Cairo. (wikipedia.org)
  • While relations between Syria and Egypt have been rocky for over a decade, Cairo has maintained formal diplomatic relations with Damascus, only briefly suspending them in 2013 and resuming them the same year. (antiwar.com)
  • Syria was suspended from the Cairo-based Arab League in 2011 and has yet to be reinstated. (antiwar.com)
  • The visit to Syria and Turkiye by Egypt's top diplomat - the first in a decade - comes at a time when Cairo is increasingly signalling a restoration of ties with both countries after a turbulent decade since the military coup which overthrew the democratically-elected Egyptian President, Mohammed Morsi, and brought Sisi to power, the subsequent Turkish condemnations and the advancement of the civil war in Syria. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • A few weeks earlier, a separate report in the Wall Street Journal claimed that Israel attacked multiple Iranian ships transporting oil and equipment from Iran to Syria, since 2019. (jewishpress.com)
  • Local Administration and Environment Minister, Chairman of Higher Relief Committee, Hussein Makhlouf and UNHCR Representative in Syria , Sivanka Dhanapala, discussed the mechanism of the continuous implementation of response programs to help the earthquake-affected people , in addition to the issue of return of refugees to their homeland. (sana.sy)
  • Iran hopes that this operation will be ended immediately to prevent a deepening of the crisis in the border regions of Turkey and Syria. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The Iran-Syria Alliance: Sectarianism or Realpolitik? (joshualandis.com)
  • JERUSALEM A senior Israeli official accused Iran on Sunday of attempting to open a new front against Israel from Syria and indirectly confirmed that Tel. (turkishpress.com)
  • The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has denounced in unusually harsh terms Wednesday's bloody military crackdown against supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. (ipsnews.net)
  • On 1 February 1958, a group of political and military leaders in Syria proposed a merger of the two states to Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. (wikipedia.org)
  • This incident lead many Syrian leaders to believe that Syria was being turned into an Egyptian colony, so a coup d'état in Syria in 1961 arrested Amer, sent him back to Egypt, and declared Syria an independent nation, though Egypt would keep the name 'United Arab Republic' until 1971. (wikipedia.org)
  • Last month, Syrian security services chief Ali Mamlouk met with Egyptian officials in his first public foreign visit in five years to discuss Egypt publicly backing the embattled Syrian regime. (newarab.com)
  • Two days after a military coup ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, Washington appeared deeply divided over how to respond to what most experts believe is a critical moment for future relations between the U.S. and political Islam both in Egypt and throughout the Middle East. (ipsnews.net)
  • Once Turkey and Syria have made peace, the only remaining obstacle to peace will be the US presence. (antiwar.com)
  • He [Secretary-General Ban] commended Turkey for the restraint shown in its initial reaction and appreciated Turkey and Syria for conducting a joint search operation," according to Mr. Ban's spokesperson, who added that Mr. Ban urged both countries to continue to address the situation diplomatically. (undispatch.com)
  • Egypt's FM makes his first trip to Turkey and Syria in ten years. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • Egypt has an embassy in Damascus. (wikipedia.org)
  • Egypt closed down its embassy in Damascus in June 2013. (wikipedia.org)
  • The US is opposed to regional countries normalizing with Syria and refused to engage with the government in Damascus even after the earthquake. (antiwar.com)
  • Speaking to reporters in Damascus, Shoukry stated that "The goal of the visit is primarily humanitarian, and to pass on our solidarity - from the leadership, the government and the people of Egypt to the people of Syria. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • Mekdad welcomed the visit, saying that "When the Foreign Minister of Egypt comes to Damascus, he comes to his home, his people and his country. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • Founded in 2005, the Damascus Declaration is a coalition of political parties and independent activists whose stated goal is to build internal support for peaceful democratic change in Syria. (hrw.org)
  • Damascus, SANA- Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem met on Monday the newly-appointed Armenian Ambassador to Syria Dikran Kevorkian. (sana.sy)
  • Damascus, SANA- Syria and UNHCR discussed Wednesday the ongoing projects being implemented in cooperation with the international organization , and the possibility of developing them in accordance with the reconstruction process. (sana.sy)
  • This month, been alarming from a humanitarian perspective: for example the United Nation envoy and Arab League envoy to Syria carried in Hawija, Kirkuk governorate, health workers have fled and it out talks with Syrian officials in Damascus to negotiate a deal to has been impossible to deliver medical supplies to the popula- freeze fighting in Aleppo. (who.int)
  • Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry announced on Monday that Egypt will not be sending troops to Syria. (egyptindependent.com)
  • Following his visit to Syria, Shoukry traveled to Turkey , another country Egypt has had frosty relations with over the past decade. (antiwar.com)
  • Egypt-Syria relations refers to the bilateral relations between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Syrian Arab Republic. (wikipedia.org)
  • A continued crisis in Afrin may boost…terrorist groups in northern Syria," the agency quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi as saying. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The crisis in Syria is expected to dominate the annual session of the UN Human Rights Council which opens today. (warnewsradio.org)
  • The United States, which has refused to cut off its hefty 1.3 billion dollars in annual military aid to Egypt, continues to argue that depriving arms to the 438,500-strong security forces will only "destabilise" the crisis-ridden country. (ipsnews.net)
  • BEIRUT (AP) - Six people from the same family including two children were killed in a Syrian military artillery strike on a rebel-held village in northwest Syria on Saturday, opposition activists said. (egyptindependent.com)
  • and in Syria, where civilians have been killed in clashes between Government forces and armed opposition groups. (undispatch.com)
  • The time is nearing for a potentially definitive U.S. response to alleged Syrian government atrocities and an increasingly violent military crackdown in Egypt, President Barack Obama said in an exclusive interview broadcast Friday on CNN's "New Day. (cnn.com)
  • United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his deep concern about the shooting down of a Turkish military jet shot over Syria - and particularly about the potential serious implications of the incident for the region - in a telephone call on Saturday with Turkey's Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu. (undispatch.com)
  • The Arab Republic of Egypt expresses its rejection of the military operation carried out by the Turkish troops against the town of Afrin in northwestern Syria, considering the operation as yet another violation of Syria's sovereignty and the disruption of efforts within the framework of the existing political decisions and efforts on struggle against terrorism in Syria," the statement said. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Egypt has also been advancing its relations with Turkiye over the past few years, culminating in the handshake between Sisi and Erdogan, and more recently Turkish companies' pledge to invest $500 million into Egypt this month. (middleeastmonitor.com)
  • Meanwhile, the Kurdish militants have embarked on fierce battles against Turkish forces and their allies the Free Syrian Army for the third day in a row in Afrin city in northern Syria. (egyptindependent.com)
  • In Egypt, everyone apparently forgot that the Muslim Brotherhood and Mohamed Morsi came to power in the aftermath of a military-supported coup against the Hosni Mubarak administration. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • I am against foreign intervention by force in what happens in Syria,' Morsi said. (ahram.org.eg)
  • Morsi, a former senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood who became Egypt's first democratically elected president in June, said Arab nations should 'support the people of Syria in their march toward freedom. (ahram.org.eg)
  • Algeria has criticised air strikes carried out by the United States, France and Britain against Syria, Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia said on Saturday. (africanews.com)
  • The US has issued a 180-day exemption for its sanctions on Syria that applies to transactions related to earthquake relief. (antiwar.com)
  • Syria is facing acute energy shortages amid Western sanctions. (dw.com)
  • The number of civilians fleeing Syria and seeking refuge in neighboring countries has increased sharply as violence has escalated. (newsblaze.com)
  • The United States, which is preoccupied with the ongoing political and military developments in Syria, is still saddled with an unresolved problem elsewhere in the Middle East: the military takeover of Egypt's first democratically-elected government. (ipsnews.net)
  • Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the UN, addresses the Security Council meeting on Syria, Sept. 25, 2016. (consortiumnews.com)
  • The Rafah border crossing, situated between Gaza and Egypt, will soon be reopened, announced US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday. (turkishpress.com)
  • The accounts of these brave people who traveled from Syria is a testimony not just to their personal experiences, but to the experiences of Syrians throughout Syria. (newsblaze.com)
  • Once Syria and Turkey make peace,the Arab Israeli problem will still exist.Syria should normalize itself. (antiwar.com)
  • Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has claimed in a recording of a conversation leaked to The New York Times and other news outlets that during the Obama Administration, then-US Secretary of State John Kerry revealed to him information about covert Israeli military operations in Syria. (jewishpress.com)
  • An astonished Zarif said Kerry informed him of more than 200 Israeli operations in Syria, according to a report Monday by Fox News . (jewishpress.com)
  • John Kerry was ratting out Israeli covert operations in Syria directly to the Iranian foreign minister. (jewishpress.com)
  • Asked about claims by anti-regime activists in Syria that Bashar al-Assad's government used chemical weapons in an attack that was said to have killed more than 1,300 people, Obama responded that officials are "right now gathering information" and that "what we've seen indicates that this is clearly a big event of grave concern. (cnn.com)
  • Syria has a long record of prosecuting political activists who peacefully express their opinions. (hrw.org)
  • I am sympathetic to Senator McCain's passion for helping people work through what is an extraordinarily difficult and heartbreaking situation, both in Syria and in Egypt," Obama replied. (cnn.com)
  • In Egypt and Morocco, unitary courts curbed clerical judicial authority over family law and weakened the resilience of conservative religious authorities. (brill.com)
  • Under this union, all parties in Syria were banned, and a massive crackdown on both Syrian communists and Syrian political life as a whole commenced. (wikipedia.org)
  • I think the events unfolding in Syria obviously underline the importance of having safety duplication outside of a country," he said, adding the facility had not been damaged in the military crackdown on an anti-government uprising. (croptrust.org)
  • During the times of the Ottoman Empire, Napoleon invaded Egypt and Syria. (wikipedia.org)
  • After Napoleon was defeated, a power vacuum emerged in Egypt, and Ottoman general Muhammad Ali Pasha took control of Egypt and declared war on the Ottomans for control over Syria. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2013, five (83%) of six Eastern Mediterranean Region countries met indicators at the national level (Syria did not meet either). (cdc.gov)
  • Among other pressing humanitarian priorities, Syrian youth in particular are in danger of becoming a 'lost generation' due in part to the lack of available and affordable avenues for higher education within Syria and in host neighbouring countries. (lu.se)
  • Shishakli meet with Naguib to discuss cooperation and a union between Syria and Egypt, which Naguib was receptive to but wanted to resolve the issue of Sudan, which Egypt had occupied since the conquests of Muhammad Ali, first. (wikipedia.org)
  • Unless an alternative agreement is reached, UN-funded assistance could stop being delivered to rebel-held areas of Syria starting in January. (dw.com)
  • Egypt called for defusing tensions to stop the bloodshed and to spare the region more factors of instability, according to the statement. (news.cn)
  • Over the past years, everyone who has eyes must have seen who was more brutal, barbaric or savage in Syria. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Egypt and Syria would later be provinces of the Roman and Byzantine empire, before the Islamic conquests. (wikipedia.org)
  • China and Russia have been sharply criticized for vetoing a UN resolution to extend cross-border aid to Syria. (dw.com)
  • Egypt is the world's largest wheat importer, and in recent years has relied significantly on wheat supplies from Russia and Ukraine. (fanack.com)
  • Official Spokesperson of Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Abu Zaid said that Russia has invited Egypt to attend the Russian-sponsored Syrian peace conference in Sochi city in January's end. (egyptindependent.com)
  • Syria and Egypt were signers of the Alexandria Protocols and later founders of the Arab League. (wikipedia.org)
  • Turkey's foreign policy and humanitarian interests, of course, require peace, order and tranquility in Syria. (hurriyetdailynews.com)