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Syria blocks distribution of Saudi-owned daily

Syria is blocking distribution of the Saudi-owned pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat, the paper's Beirut bureau chief Zuhair Qusaybati told AFP on Thursday. "The censorship authorities at the information ministry in Damascus asked...

Daily Star Political News: Senior Salafi cleric issues stark warning to Damascus

Lebanon's leading Salafi cleric, Dai al-Islam al-Shahhal, has warned Syria to stay out of North Lebanon or risk opening "the gates of hell." In an interview to be published in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Anbaa, Shahhal made clear that...

U.S., France Anxious as Syria-Lebanon Tension Builds

By Yaniv Berman A series of bombings in northern Lebanon and Damascus, followed by mutual accusations, are a matter of concern to world powers, including the United States and France. Both the U.S. and France warned Syria...

Daily Star Political News: 'Rice warned Moallem' against trying to revive role in Lebanon

The US government has warned Syria against any attempt to restore its formerly dominant position in Lebanon, the pan-Arab daily Al-Haayat said Thursday Arab and Western diplomatic sources quoted by Al-Hayat said Damascus had...

Daily Star Political News: Hajj's wife urges Sleiman to release him

Samar al-Hajj, wife of detained former head of the Internal Security Forces General Ali al-Hajj, urged President Michel Sleiman in a letter on Thursday to serve justice by liberating her husband if no evidence proving him...

Is rapprochement breaking out between America and Syria?

A series of meetings between US and Syrian diplomats, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Foreign Minister Walid Moallem, at the United Nations in late September is stirring speculation that Washington may at last...

Twisting the Facts on Israel

“An evil wind of extremism, of hate, of maliciousness, of violence, of losing control, of lawbreaking, of contempt for the institutions of state, is passing though certain sections of the Israeli public,” Prime Minister Ehud...

Syria encouraged by U.S. talks

NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Syria, branded by the United States as a sponsor of terrorism, is encouraged by recent meetings with U.S. officials, the country's foreign minister says. Foreign Minister Walid Moallem met...

Car bomb attack on Lebanese troops kills 5 people

A car bomb exploded near a bus carrying Lebanese Army troops here Monday, killing five and wounding 17, security officials said. The attack came two days after a horrific car bombing in Syria, which the Damascus government...

Lebanese blast mars vote on electoral law

A car bomb targeting a bus carrying soldiers in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli killed at least four people and wounded up to 30 others just as Parliament was convening in Beirut to vote on a new electoral law, the...