SYRIA - Key Figures Operating in Co-ordination with Dr. Imadi in Economic...

APS Review Downstream Trends;  March 23, 1998 ;     715 words ......speculation that if the pace of economic liberalisation and monetary reform is speeded...of foreign capital into Syria, especially from the private...technocrat and favours further economic liberalisation in Syria. Abu Fakhr has played a...

Fierce words, tied hands; Syria's role.(Syria, America and the war)

The Economist (US);  April 5, 2003 ;     637 words ...Syria hates the war, but is too weak to play the spoiler THE veteran foreign minister, Farouk Sharaa, does not mince words. Syria, he says, has a national interest in expelling America and...from Iraq. The question he does not answer is: how far will Syria go to pursue that interest? To date, it would seem, ...

Syria edging closer to Iraq Damascus rejects U.S. charges of smuggling...

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 1, 2003 ;   Anton La Guardia;   564 words ...LONDON--Syria came closer to forging a formal alliance...invasion." The Bush administration is concerned Syria is smuggling into Iraq Soviet anti-tank...Bush administration was trying to pressure Syria because of its strident opposition to the...

Syria denies U.S. accusations; Sheltering Iraqis?: Nation says ties to...

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  April 17, 2003 ;   ASSOCIATED PRESS;   587 words ...DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syria denied American accusations Wednesday that it is sheltering a high...Mukhabarat, Saddam's intelligence service, apparently had surfaced in Syria. Hijazi is believed to be one of several high-ranking Iraqis who made...

Bush Plan Rejects Dialogue With Syria

AP Online;  January 11, 2007 ;     736 words ...DAMASCUS, Syria - President Bush's new strategy on Iraq rejects proposals to enlist Syria's aid in ending Iraq's raging violence - a move...to send 21,000 more troops to Iraq, Bush slammed Syria and its ally Iran, accusing both of supporting...

Powell vows to get tough with Syria

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  May 3, 2003 ;   Robin Wright Los Angeles Times;   498 words ...DAMASCUS, Syria -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell arrived...new economic or diplomatic penalties on Syria for its support of extremists, its alleged...Israeli conflict, the time has come for Syria to respond to the "changed strategic dynamic...

Arabs Back Syria After Israeli Flyover

AP Online;  June 29, 2006 ;     557 words ...DAMASCUS, Syria - The flyover by Israeli warplanes that...Assad's summer home may have embarrassed Syria, but it also rallied Arab support around...Assad to send expressions of sympathy to Syria, which has been largely isolated since the...

Syria's Pretexts Gone.(military policy)

APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula;  February 21, 2005 ;     462 words ...One of Syria's pretexts for keeping 14,000 troops and...stability in post-war Lebanon. Although Syria is not the only country that has bloodied...is perhaps the closest and most involved. Syria was always trying to project itself as a...

Iraq, Syria to Discuss Security Issues

AP Online;  January 14, 2007 ;     637 words ...DAMASCUS, Syria - Iraq's president was expected in Syria on Sunday, in a landmark visit that could bring his war-ravaged...small step closer to ending the raging violence and offer Syria the chance to ease its isolation. A veteran Kurdish politician...

SYRIA - The Challenge Of Globalisation - Part 16.(Brief Article)

APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula;  April 8, 2002 ;     698 words ......potential of a spillover effect into Lebanon or Syria, which could trigger a wider regional war. In the...Rumsfeld said on April 1, 2002, that Iran, Iraq and Syria were behind terrorism, hinting that they could face...on civilisation, and states like Iran, Iraq and Syria are inspiring and financing a ...

Syria: Iraqis will be denied: Rahall meets with Assad

Charleston Gazette;  April 21, 2003 ;   Donna Abu-Nasr;   527 words ...DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria will not give asylum to Iraqis wanted for war crimes and will expel any...to address U.S. concerns raised since the Iraq war. Washington accuses Syria of sponsoring terrorism and harboring ousted members of Saddam Hussein...

Syria calls U.S. sanctions bill the work of extremists

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  October 9, 2003 ;   Associated Press;   503 words ...DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syria through its official media Thursday criticized the United States' preliminary...ultra-extremists." The House International Relations Committee approved the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act on Wednesday...

Syria may be losing leverage

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  July 26, 2006 ;   Neil MacFarquhar New York Times News Service;   787 words ...DAMASCUS, Syria -- As the war between Israel and the Lebanese...trouble. Now, analysts argue, even if asked, Syria may have trouble tamping out the flames...for cooperating, it is also not clear why Syria would want to squash Hezbollah. "Essentially...

SYRIA: Syria, the United States, and the War on Terror in the Middle East

The Middle East Journal;  October 1, 2006 ;   Wieland, Carsten;   787 words ...Syria, the United States, and the War on Terror in the Middle East...on the complex linkages between regional developments and Syria's foreign policy. The book starts out with a background discussion of Syrian collective consciousness, i.e., Syria's nationalist struggle for independence and the emergence...

Syria will withdraw April 30, U.N. says

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  April 4, 2005 ;   Donna Abu-Nasr Associated Press;   646 words ...DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syria plans to pull all its troops and intelligence agents from Lebanon by...meeting President Bashar Assad. The full withdrawal will mark the end of Syria's 29 year military presence in Lebanon and will comply with the demands...