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Reuters
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Iraqi lawmakers said on Saturday that Washington should take responsibility for the turmoil in Iraq and stop blaming Baghdad, Iran and Syria.
Frustrated by criticism from the United States over their slow progress towards political goals meant to foste..
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BBC News
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Syria says its air defences have opened fire on Israeli war planes which had entered Syrian airspace.
The action took place "without causing human or material loss", according to the official Syrian news agency, SANA.
In a statement, Syria's Ministr..
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ABC News
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The World Food Program has launched an appeal for $1.7 million to help feed tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees who are continue to arrive in Syria and increasingly without the resources to sustain themselves.
Worsening violence in Iraq has forced many..
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CBS News
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The United States and the Iraqi government are launching a new diplomatic initiative to invite Iran and Syria to a "neighbors meeting" on stabilizing Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.
"We hope that all governments seize this oppor..
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ABC News
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A U.S. government surveillance tape, obtained by ABC News, reveals in graphic detail the attack on the American embassy in Damascus, Syria, this September and raises new questions about the role of the Syrian government...
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Times Online
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Bashir Assad, the President of Syria, has repeatedly offered peace talks with Israel. Most recently he has added that he has no preconditions for negotiations — he is not even demanding that Israel promise in advance to return the Golan Heights. The res..
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Time
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A classified document suggests the Administration is considering a plan to fund political opposition to the Damascus government. Some critics say it would be an unwarranted covert action..
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BBC News
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The UN nuclear agency has said that Syria is to allow inspectors to visit the country to investigate allegations that it was building a nuclear reactor.
The International Atomic Energy Agency says its inspectors are due in Syria between the 22 and 24 J..
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BBC News
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Israel and Syria have said they are holding indirect talks to reach a comprehensive peace agreement.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said both sides were talking "in good faith and openly".
The Syrian foreign ministry also confirmed the..
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SF Gate
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At least 25,000 Iraqi refugees have returned to their beleaguered homeland from Syria since mid-September, according to preliminary estimates released Monday by the Iraqi Red Crescent.
The figure represents a fraction of the estimated 1.5 million Iraqi..
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BBC News
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Newly-released satellite images of the presumed site of an Israeli air raid on Syria last month suggest that a large building has been completely removed.
US research group, the Institute for Science and International Security, obtained and analysed th..
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MSNBC
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Independent experts have pinpointed what they believe to be the Euphrates River site in Syria that was bombed by Israel last month, and satellite imagery of the area shows buildings under construction roughly similar in design to a North Korean reactor ca..
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Times Online
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Israeli commandos seized nuclear material of North Korean origin during a daring raid on a secret military site in Syria before Israel bombed it this month, according to informed sources in Washington and Jerusalem.
The attack was launched with America..
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Time
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A mysterious incident involving Israeli jets over northern Syria last week has revived fears of war between Israel and Syria, just as months of tension between the bitter foes had appeared to be subsiding. The Israeli government is maintaining a rigid —..
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MSNBC
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Syrian air defenses opened fire on Israeli aircraft that violated Syrian airspace, a Syrian military spokesman said Thursday.
The Israelis broke the sound barrier and “dropped ammunition” over deserted areas of northern Syria overnight, the spokesm..
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Al Jazeera
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Jacky Rowland, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Jerusalem, said: "All that Israel has said is that it did not carry out a military attack against Syria."
She said: "This has been a summer of heightening tensions between Israel and Syria, certainly in ter..
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Al Jazeera
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Oh Beirut, we want revenge against Lahoud and Bashar," they shouted.
Syria condemned the assassination of Eido, saying it had nothing to do with the killing.
"Syria strongly denounces this crime and condemns the campaign of lies by some Lebanese..
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BBC News
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Israel's government has sent secret messages to Syria about the possibility of renewing peace negotiations, the deputy prime minister has confirmed.
Shaul Mofaz did not comment on the content of the messages, but said it was important that a secret cha..
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BBC News
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Syria has condemned a Security Council decision to set up an international tribunal to try suspects in the killing of Rafik Hariri.
The former Lebanese PM was killed in a car bombing in Beirut in 2005.
A UN inquiry has suggested that Syrian and Leba..
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Al Jazeera
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Suleiman on Thursday told a top Israeli parliamentary panel that Syria and Israel could clinch a peace deal in six months.
"Like everyone else who proposed playing a role in the peace process, Mr Suleiman heard Syria's position which rejects secret ne..
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