Arabic News Weekly Edition for Syria, 8/10/1998
Weekly Edition, Syria - Week of August 10, 1998
- AL condemns Israeli settlement expansion in the Golan
The Arab League has strongly condemned the decision of the Israeli government to expand settlements in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Syria-Regional, Politics, 8/15/1998 - Syria, Iraq boost bilateral trade relations
A correspondent for the Jordanian daily al-Doustour in Damascus, Fuad Humera, quoted well informed sources as saying that a Syrian trade delegation, led by chairman of the Syrian chambers of trade and industry, Rateb al-Shallah, will visit Baghdad within the coming days to open the first Syrian trade center in Baghdad. Syria-Iraq, Economics, 8/15/1998 - Syrian strangled in Jordan
Syrian citizen Fateh Raja eddine Jalasi 36 was executed on Thursday at dawn, just seven months after he was convicted to death, after he was found guilty for a crime in June, 1997 that claimed the life of another Syrian citizen, his wife and their child. Jordan-Syria, Judicial, 8/14/1998 - Lebanon approves Syrian customs reduction Lebanon-Syria, Economics, 8/14/1998
- Syrian Parliament speaker confers with member of Jordanian parliament Syria-Jordan, Politics, 8/14/1998
- Syrian defense minister visits troops in Lebanon
At the directive of President Hafez al-Assad, Syrian Deputy Premier and Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Mustafa Tlass and high-ranking army officers on Wednesday visited one of the Syrian contingents working in Lebanon. Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 8/13/1998 - Syria allows Egyptian goods to cross through to its lands to Iraq
Syrian diplomatic sources said the Syrian authorities agreed to transporting Egyptian exports to Iraq through Syrian territory after the goods are shipped to a Syrian harbor. Syria-Egypt, Economics, 8/10/1998