Assad: Syrian army can handle Israel
Syria\’s army is ready to deal with Israel, Syrian President Bashar Assad told an Iranian official on Syrian state television.
Syria\’s army is ready to deal with Israel, Syrian President Bashar Assad told an Iranian official on Syrian state television.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he deplores the cross-border shootings from Syria into Turkey and Lebanon ahead of a ceasefire deadline in the yearlong conflict that has pushed Syria to the brink of civil war.
Leaders of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas turned publicly against their long-time ally President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on Friday, endorsing the revolt aimed at overthrowing his dynastic rule.
Think kiwis and kumquats. While it is true that they are both fruits, the similarities between them end right about there. So, too, the similarities between Libya and Syria.
A U.N. Security Council statement condemning Syria\’s crackdown on dissidents was inadequate, the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League said.
Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus. Hoenlein said the meeting Monday was at the invitation of Syria and not, as had been reported originally by the Israeli media, at the behest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. \”I went to Damascus on an important humanitarian issue to the Jewish people,\” Hoenlein told Haaretz. \”Netanyahu did not ask anything from me, and any attempt to link me to the diplomatic process with Syrian is manipulation.\”