Syria
July 11, 2000
By Nabil Al Mulhem Damascus Bashar Assad officially became the president of Syria on Tuesday after parliament endorsed the results of the nationwide
Bashar Assad won 97.29 percent of the votes in Monday's nationwide referendum, becoming Syria's 16th president, Interior Minister Mohammed Harbah said
July 10, 2000
By Nabil Al Mulhem Damascus Syria’s government put forward on Monday before the People’s Assembly a package of economic laws to be modified, in addit
By Nabil Al Mulhem Damascus Syrian former deputy prime minister, Salim Yassin, who is on trial for corruption, may be facing criminal charges, accord
The top priority of Bashar Assad, sole candidate to succeed his late father Syrian president Hafez Assad, is to regain completely the Golan Heights, o
By Nabil Al Mulhem Damascus About 11,000 polling stations opened in Damascus at 07:00 a.m (0400 GMT) Monday for 9.4 million voters to endorse Bashar
July 9, 2000
Bashar Assad says he wants every home in Syria to have Internet. But the country's telecom monopoly charges a $100 connection when most of the country
The Syrian government has set up a committee to create a proportional income tax system that would be fairer to people with average and low incomes.
July 8, 2000
Syria's 9.4 million voters will have the chance on Monday to do formally what the country's leadership has already done -- endorse 34-year-old Bashar
July 6, 2000
By Nabil Al Mulhem Damascus Syrian authorities announced Thursday that they had unearthed two more cases of corruption in a crackdown that came withi
July 5, 2000
A new 1,500 kilometer train service linking Damascus with Istanbul in Turkey was inaugurated Tuesday, the railway company said Wednesday. The once a w
July 4, 2000
By Nabil Al Mulhem Damascus A Syrian businessman has disclosed full details of the AirBus deal, a corruption case that has seen the sending to trial
July 3, 2000
By Nabil Al Mulhem Damascus Syrian president-designate and supreme commander of the army Bashar Assad has discharged three top officers and promoted
Remarks made recently by Syrian officials that foreign banks are being actively encouraged to create branches in the country's free zones drew cautious responses from the international banking communi
July 1, 2000
By Nabil Al Mulhem Damascus Syrian president-designate Bashar Assad met Saturday with Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Said Sahhaf where hey discussed