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Baker Hughes, Hunt Energy and Argent LNG will develop a masterplan for Syria's energy and power generation. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Clan fighters gathered in the Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday to support Bedouin militants in their clashes with Druze armed factions in the southern province of Sweida despite calls for a ceasefire.
Syrian troops are trying to intervene in sectarian violence in the south between the Druze minority and Bedouins. Israel said its strikes were to protect the Druze.
Shiite rituals for Ashoura in Damascus have drastically changed after the fall of Syria's former President Bashar Assad. Once bustling with pilgrims, the Sayyida Zeinab shrine area is now subdued,...
State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce and Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst discusses the Israeli airstrikes on the Syrian capital, Damascus on ‘America Reports.’
World News Suicide bomber detonates explosive vest killing 22, wounding 63 others in strike at Syrian church near Damascus during mass By Associated Press
DAMASCUS (Reuters) -U.S.-based firms Baker Hughes, Hunt Energy and Argent LNG will develop a masterplan for Syria's oil, gas and power sector, Argent LNG CEO Jonathan Bass said on Friday, in a partnership aimed at rebuilding energy infrastructure shattered by 14 years of civil war.
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Shiite pilgrims from Syria and abroad used to flock to the Sayyida Zeinab shrine outside of Damascus every year to commemorate Ashoura, a solemn day marking the 7th-century…