Damascus - Scores of inmates were killed when prison authorities put down a riot staged Saturday by Islamist political prisoners in Sidnaya military jail near Damascus, a Syrian human rights group

India’s heavy engineering company, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has

Berlin - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is having second thoughts about helping Iran with its controversial nuclear programme, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday, quoting unspecified intelligence reports.

The weekly said North Korea had also provided assistance to Iran at a Syrian facility bombed by Israeli warplanes in September 2007.

Experts believe the site at al-Kibar was used to produce nuclear material the Iranian regime needed to make a bomb, the magazine reported.

Damascus - There will be no handshake between Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a Euro-Mediterranean summit that will be held in Paris in July, Syria's for

New Delhi, June 18 :India and Sy

New Delhi, June 18 : Syrian President Bashar al-Assad today said that Syria recognizes the increasing importance of India in world politics and looks forward to India's active participation in the