A Syrian TV drama about the lives of political prisoners was banned from being broadcasted on the privately owned Syrian television channel Addounia (The World), on September 4.
Syria has appointed its first ambassador to Iraq in almost 30 years following the swearing in of Nawaf al-Fares by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at a ceremony in Damascus on September 16.
A nine-year-old Palestinian refugee from Iraq living in the al-Tanf camp in no-man’s land between the Syrian-Iraqi borders was killed by a truck on September 10.
A Syrian military court sentenced former Vice-President Abdul Halim Khaddam to life imprisonment and hard labour after finding him guilty of 13 charges, including high treason, in Damascus on August 17.
Syrian authorities arrested a Syrian-Austrian citizen at Damascus airport last month over claims he had been in touch with a Syrian dissident, a human rights group said on September 9.
The influence of the Zionist lobby on the American political process is well known. So where are the Arabs? Syria Today sits down with James Zogby, founder and president of the Arab American Institute, to discuss the 2008 US presidential election and the Arab American community’s growing political participation.
Q&A: Hernando de Soto, economist and founder of the Institute of Liberty and Democracy
Syria Today catches up with economist and Nobel Prize finalist Hernando de Soto who has been hired by the Syrian government to look into the country’s informal economy.
Syria’s first hotline for victims of domestic violence offers women legal and psychological support and, more importantly, a place where they can speak up without fear.