Syria
January 19, 2004
Despite the United State’s tough economic sanction campaign against Syria, officials are suggesting that investigations implicating the Arab state in terrorist funding schemes have been abandoned in o
Saudi Arabia’s Al-Watania Poultry has earned the Safe Quality Food (SQF) 2000 Certification after meeting the control measures of a system called Hazards Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP). Ori
The opening of the Initial Public Offering of Amlak Finance has been met with an overwhelming positive response with investors queuing up at the receiving banks ahead of the opening hours of the first
January 18, 2004
Prince Saud Al-Faisal, the Saudi Foreign Minister, who on Sunday was on an official visit to Cairo, said that he handed a letter from Crown Prince Abd
Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein should not face the death penalty and must be tried by a tribunal of Iraqis and international specialists, the head
Syria's Vice President Abd al-Halim Khaddam said Damascus was ready to renew peace talks with Israel, but only from the point that the negotiations w
Assistant US Trade Representative (USTR) Catherine Novelli underscored the importance of a country-by-country approach in the US effort to promote a broad Middle East free trade area by 2013 at a rece
January 17, 2004
Qatar's First Deputy to Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassem Bin Jabr Al Thani, arrived in Damascus Friday evening.
Three US soldiers and two Iraqi paramilitaries were killed Saturday morning when a huge roadside bomb went off north of Baghdad, splitting open the gu
January 16, 2004
Secretary of State Colin Powell said the United States was not looking for "trouble" with Syria but urged it to end its alleged support for "terrorist
A plane carrying Georgia's Defense Minister David Tevzadze was shot at as it took off from Baghdad's airport to return to his country overnight, but n
January 15, 2004
Syria's Vice-President Abdul Halim Khaddam received on Thursday an Iraqi delegation representing Islamic Movement of Iraqi Turkmen, the Iraqi Turkmani
US Senator Bill Nelson, who met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last week in Damascus, "came away with the impression that Assad is finding it d
Following the bombing attack on Erez Crossing, Israel's Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz decided to impose a 24-hour closure on the Gaza Strip late on Wed
US-based Totoal Resource Management (TRM) has been awarded a $1.9 million small business contract to configure, deploy and integrate the technology system that will drive the multisite, multilingual e
