· The World Health Organisation, already eager to work with companies close to Bachar Al Assad (IO, 19/01/21), has just awarded Damas with a seat on its executive board, thus confirming its intention to see Syria play on the international stage once 26 May, the World Health Assembly, composed of 194 member states, elected Syria for a threeyear term, along with 11 other new .

 ·  · Loucks noted that, contrary to a statement issued Monday by Holtzman`s office, Baxter has not begun to build a plant in Syria for which it entered into a joint venture in 1989.

 · Canadian Kristian Lee Baxter, detained while travelling in Syria last year, was freed on Friday, the second Westerner released by the Syrian government in .

The various ethnic and religious groups in Syria live relatively peacefully together. But many Kurdish Syrians find themselves stateless in their own country. Manuela Römer reports that they do not feel part of the socalled "Syrian mosaic"

 · Joss Stone 'glad nothing bad happened' as she crosses into Syria for concert. The soul singer says she is pleased to be in the town where the political wing of the Kurdishled Syrian .

 · Kristian Lee Baxter, the man who was detained in Syria, speaks after being released from a year in detention. BEIRUT A Canadian citizen held in Syrian prisons since last year and freed ...

On 30 March 1949, Syrian Army Colonel Husni alZa'im seized power from President Shukri alQuwatli in a bloodless coup d'é are "highly controversial" allegations that the American legation in Syria—headed by James Hugh Keeley Jr.—and the CIA engineered the coup. Assistant military attaché (and undercover CIA officer) Stephen J. Meade, who became intimately acquainted with ...

 · The Syrian government and its ally Russia have repeatedly reminded the US that its military presence in Syria is entirely illegal; Washington was never authorized by Damascus to deploy troops there. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said last November that the US' attempts to control the oilfields are tantamount to "stealing" Syrian natural resources.

 · In the mountains of the Syrian desert covered with with unknown rock formations, stone circles and mysterious lines of stone there is an ancient monastery with ancient tombs, corridors and walls covered with frescoes. Loed 90km north of Damascus, the monastery is named after St. Moses the Abyssinian Deir Mar Musa alHabashi. Unusually, the monastery survived the uncertainties .

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 · Baxter International Inc., a leading medical supply company, said yesterday that it had canceled plans to build a factory in Syria because of a "controversy" over its .

 · A Canadian citizen held in Syria has been released, and appeared at a news conference in Beirut with the Lebanese security chief on Friday.

 · It is thought that in Western Europe megalithic construction involving the use of stone only dates back as far as ca. 4500 BC. This means that the Syrian site could well be older than anything ...

 ·  · Warning: Extremely Disturbing Images. Woman Stoned to Death by ISIS in Syria. A video posted on the Internet shows the stoning of a woman accused of adultery in the Hama area in Syria. In the video, an official from the Islamic State is shown administering the proceedings, at the end of which, the woman is led to a hole in the ground, where she ...

 · The abundance of stone in the area made it the main building material in the construction of the courtyard houses of Aleppo. Walls are frequently formed by layers of white and black stones called AlAblaq which forms a distinctive characteristic of the courtyard houses of Syria.