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NEWS ABOUT: Damascus

Damascus stories: 9 news summaries

 Don't Forget 
 Iraqi Refugees: 
 Brangelina 

Stars visit with displaced people in Syria

Oct 2, 09 5:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are in Syria, using their powers for good. The celebrity übercouple visited Iraqi refugees in Damascus today in an attempt to keep the lowest-profile victims of the war from falling off the radar, People reports. Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the UN's refugee agency,... More »

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Iraq • entertainment • Angelina Jolie • Syria • Brad Pitt • refugee • Damascus • Iraqi refugees • UN High Commissioner for Refugees • Iraq war • refugees

 Mideast Loves Syria's 
 Weird, Sexy Lingerie 

Moms stock up on skimpy goodies for soon-to-be-married daughters

Apr 18, 09 6:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - After picking up dishes and washing powder at local markets, Syrian women love to purchase something more intimate: edible, fruit-flavored underwear, Der Spiegel reports. Naughty skivvies have been hot for years in Damascus, where veiled mothers regularly buy maid’s costumes, musical negligees, and remote-controlled undies for their betrothed daughters—... More »

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Syria • Damascus • lingerie • underwear

 Syria Car Bomb Kills 17 

14 wounded in blast near Damascus airport, temple

Sep 27, 08 8:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - A car bomb on the road to Syria’s main airport killed at least 17 passers-by and injured 14 others, the Daily Telegraph reports. The car, at an intersection in the country’s capital, Damascus, had held 440 lbs of explosives; the target of the bomb, which exploded near a... More »

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Syria • car bomb • explosion • Damascus • temple

CIA to Brief Congress on
Syria-North Korea Nuke Pact

Washington moves close to N. Korea agreement

Apr 23, 08 7:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Details of a suspected secret pact between North Korea and Syria to supply Damascus with nuclear weapons technology will be revealed in closed-door CIA briefings of lawmakers, Reuters reports. The pact is apparently linked to an Israeli air raid on a suspected nuclear site in Syria last year. The briefing... More »

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Israel • North Korea • Syria • Senate • Armed Services Committee • House of Representatives • Pyongyang • Damascus • airstrike • Intelligence Committee • National Security Council • Trading With the Enemy Act • Foreign Affairs Committee • six-party agreement

Syria Remains Key for
Foreign Fighters in Iraq: US

90% of Iraq's foreign fighters come across neighbor's borders, new report contends

Mar 12, 08 3:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Syria is a key jumping-off point for foreign militants in Iraq, with 90% entering through the Syrian border, the Pentagon reported yesterday. “It is not clear that Syria has made a strategic decision to deal with foreign terrorists using Syria as a transit point,” the report notes. Meanwhile,... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Syria • Tehran • terrorist • Shiite militia • Damascus • Sunni leaders • quarterly reports • militant • Iraq war

Top Hezbollah Militant Killed

FBI was offering $25 million for man suspected in TWA incident

Feb 13, 08 7:34 AM CST
(Newser) - A notorious Hezbollah commander was killed by a car bomb late last night in Damascus, the group said today, ending his reign of high-profile terror attacks that included the 1985 TWA hijacking, the 1992 Israeli embassy bombings, and the killing of more than 200 Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s.... More »

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Israel • Syria • Hezbollah • car bomb • assassination • Damascus • Imad Mughniyeh

Enemies May Overstate Hamas Split

It's a muddle of 'sub-leaderships,'
says Economist

Nov 10, 07 10:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Reports of strife within the Palestinian faction Hamas are likely exaggerated, the Economist says. The Islamist party may be splitting under the pressure of sanctions, but reports are hard to judge because “few observers are neutral.” There are “sub-leaderships," though. After seizing Gaza in June, for... More »

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Israel • Islam • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah • West Bank • Damascus

Israeli Raid
on Syria Had Iran in Sights

Hush-hush attack may have targeted North Korean nukes

Sep 17, 07 5:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Arab governments aren’t talking too loudly about the reported Israeli bombing of Syrian territory two weeks ago.  They’re waiting to see what the fallout is, Newsweek notes, for the real intended target—Syrian sponsor Iran. The raid appears to have been a signal that Israel will act... More »

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Iran • Israel • North Korea • Syria • nuclear weapons • United States • John Bolton • Damascus

Couric Will Report From Iraq, Syria

Anchor plans 10-day trip through Mideast before surge report

Aug 29, 07 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Katie Couric leaves today for a 10-day trip to Iraq and Syria, where she will cover the war and the turbulent Middle East as the Pentagon's September 15 deadline for a report on Iraq looms. Couric will spend six days in Iraq, twice anchoring "CBS Evening News" live from... More »

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Iraq • Congress • Pentagon • Syria • Katie Couric • CBS • Baghdad • news • reporter • Damascus • Iraq war • news anchor

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