News stories by Helena Cobban*
POLITICS: Syrian Foreign Minister Eager to Work with Obama
- Inter Press Service
Former U.S. senator George Mitchell is due to arrive in Syria’s capital, Damascus, Friday on his first visit there since being named Pres. Barack Obama’s special envoy for Arab-Israeli peace.
US-MIDEAST: Hamas Leader to Obama: Deeds, Not Words
- Inter Press Service
The head of Hamas’s political bureau, Khaled Meshaal, gave a qualified welcome here Thursday to the big speech that Pres. Barack Obama addressed to the Muslim world in Cairo.
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