* Syria sets
conditions for Mideast conference: Assad
President Bashar al-Assad said Syria will not attend
a US-sponsored Middle East peace conference unless
its concerns are addressed and that his country will
retaliate to an Israeli air strike on its own terms.
* Imam shot dead
at Syrian mosque
The
imam of a Syrian mosque who repeatedly called for
holy war against US forces was shot dead after
Friday prayers, witnesses and medical sources said.
* Iraqi vice
president on Syria visit
Iraq's
Vice-President Adel Abdel Mahdi held talks here on
Thursday with his Syrian counterpart Faruq al-Shara
at the beginning of a three-day visit to Syria.
* French FM
cancels meeting with Syria over Lebanese MP's
killing
French
Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said here
Wednesday that he was canceling a scheduled meeting
with his Syrian counterpart Walid Moallem because he
was "shocked" by last week's assassination of a
Lebanese anti-Syrian MP.
* Israeli air
strike on Syria shrouded in secrecy as speculation
mounts about the target
It
began as a mysterious mission into enemy land, but
is quickly becoming Israel's worst kept secret.
* Iraqi refugees
weighing down Syria
* Israeli Raid
on Syria Fuels Debate on Weapons
* Syria rejects
‘baseless’ accusations over Lebanese MP
* Four
firefighters die fighting forest fires in Syria
* Syria's oldest
man still working on his farm at 117
* Israel shared
intelligence with US before Syria raid: report
* Security
Council calls for further steps toward Hariri court
* South Korea
plays down nuclear proliferation concerns
* Sea of flags
for funeral of slain Lebanon MP
*
Bush refuses comment on reported Israeli raid into
Syria
* Lebanon wants
poll on time despite MP's murder
* UN Security
Council formally condemns Lebanon car bombing
*
Ruling majority points finger at Syria in Lebanon
bombing
* Syria
denounces 'criminal' assassination in Lebanon
*
North Korea denies nuclear links with Syria
* Israelis back
reported air strike on Syria
* NSF elects its
new Secretariat General
