Two Syrians have been released after spending 25
years in Israeli prisons, the Syrian official news agency SANA
reported Friday, according to dpa.
"Israeli occupation forces released Thursday the two Syrian
captives Bishr Soleiman al-Makt and Asem al-Wali

Chief of Switzerland''s Federal Department of Justice and Police Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf said Friday that Swiss Federal Council rejected an initiative to ban mosque minarets in Switzerland. That "contradicts with the basic values of Switzerland society''s system and constitution which grants freedom of religions," she said.

The crisis in relations between the Zionist entity and Turkey is also manifesting in credit and business dealings.
Israel Credit Insurance Company figures show late payments by Turkish importers of Israeli products increased dramatically in the first nine months of the year, by 90%.

The construction of a number of Israeli settlements in the West Bank is ongoing, said an Israeli newspaper on Friday.
Haaretz paper said that the construction works in a large number of settlements regardless of the Israeli-US agreement on settlements.

The Loyalty to the Resistance bloc held its regular meeting midday today headed by MP Mohammad Raad in the presence of its members The participants confirmed the need to take advantage of the current positive developments to dedicate an atmosphere of internal accord leading to the enhancement of Lebanon against the hostilities of arrogance and the Zionist enemy.

U.S. air defense systems and warships arrived in Israel ahead of a joint drill to simulate an incoming Iranian missile attack, officials said.

Israeli police mobilized reinforcements from across the country to secure volatile Jerusalem on Tuesday, deploying thousands of officers on city streets for fear days of clashes with Palestinian protesters would escalate.

Syria has postponed a visit by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, in the latest fallout arising from his failure to endorse a UN report criticising Israel's conduct in its war on Gaza.

The most unusual phenomenon cannot be overlooked these days as the forces of evil and human domination seek to impress upon us that their logic is the only acceptable logic even if it defies all acceptable norms to humankind. This is the case with the international Zionist Establishment and its right wing backers throughout the world.

Moshe Yaalon fears that he could be put on trial for committing war crimes if he visits London.

Palestinians say they will not accept findings on Gaza; a demonstration takes place in AlManara Square Ramallah today.

Online reports of a study by the US Central Intelligence Agency cast doubt over the survival of Israel beyond the next two decades. Regardless of the validity of the report, with what is now known about the costs in blood and treasure that the U.S.-Israeli relationship has imposed on the U.S., its key ally, Israel could fall within five years.

President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday received a verbal message from French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the bilateral relations and the latest developments in the Middle East and France's efforts exerted along with regional and international parties to lay satisfactory bases to reach a just, permanent and comprehensive peaceful solution in the region.

Today's prospective lunch meeting between Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri and MP Michel Aoun will be just another episode of the time-wasting saga while waiting for the aftermath of King Abdullah's visit to Damascus, As-Safir daily reported on Monday.

The prime minister of the Hamas-run government in Gaza on Sunday slammed as "reckless and irresponsible" the decision by the UN Human Rights Council to postpone consideration of a damning report into the Gaza war.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei has called Israel's nuclear arsenal the most serious threat in the region.

Makers roll out units concealed in commonplace items. Product development unhampered by streamlining.

China's rise as an economic giant, combined with its military modernization raises the question of how the country's power will be used in the future, particularly here in the Middle East.

The UN atomic watchdog head was holding talks on Sunday with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other officials on Iran's nuclear drive amid reports it has acquired sufficient data to build the bomb.

Insurgents stormed remote outposts in eastern Afghanistan killing eight Americans in the deadliest battle in more than a year, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

Just last week, it seemed that the Western powers, perhaps using Israel as a proxy, were preparing to go to war against Iran.

Numerous press reports this summer referred to the imminent arrival of American soldiers to deploy on the Egypt-Gaza border in an attempt to curb the area's ongoing underground smuggling activities.

I was born and raised in the Old City of Jerusalem. I left to pursue my higher education at Brigham Young University and Harvard University. Upon the completion of my Ph.D., I went back to Jerusalem and became editor in chief of a daily newspaper.

In 2001, the Observer in London published a series of reports that claimed an "Iraqi connection" to al-Qaeda, even describing the base in Iraq where the training of terrorists took place and a facility where anthrax was being manufactured as a weapon of mass destruction. It was all false. Supplied by US intelligence and Iraqi exiles, planted stories in the British and US media helped George Bush and Tony Blair to launch an illegal invasion which caused, according to the most recent study, 1.3 million deaths.

They had no one else to turn to. Yesterday PLO Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Ibrahim Khraishi claimed 'we have enough votes' to pass Richard Goldstone's Gaza report in the UN Human Rights Council and present it to the ICC. Israel's ambassador in Geneva, Aharon Leshno-Yaar, admitted, 'I will never have the numbers.'