Syria pursues limited troops pullback from Lebanon
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BEIRUT : Syrian troops continued a limited pullback operation from Lebanon for the second consecutive day amid international pressure for a full withdrawal.
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Syria is working to help resolve Lebanon's presidential crisis, the foreign minister said on Thursday, responding to reports that France's patience was wearing thin with Damascus over a stalled presidential election.
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Syria on Wednesday opposed deployment of an international force along its border to prevent arms shipments to Hezbollah, and Israel called the situation in Lebanon "explosive." A cease-fire was further shaken by artillery shells and explosions that killed three Lebanese soldiers and an Israeli.
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UNITED NATIONS : The UN Security Council called unanimously for Syria to pull its troops out of neighbouring Lebanon, a demand that the Syrians quickly rejected.
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Syria has begun pulling some of its troops out of Lebanon in the face of heavy international pressure for Damascus to end its political and military domination of its neighbour.
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WASHINGTON - The United States bluntly told Syria to stay out of the political crisis in Lebanon that came to a head on Wednesday with the resignation of Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
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Syria will withdraw fully from Lebanon only after Israel ends its occupation of all Arab lands, Lebanese Defense Minister Mahmoud Hammoud declared yesterday.
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Syria&#39;s decision to pull back some of its forces from hills near Beirut, an apparent attempt to deflect international pressure to get its army out of Lebanon altogether, was met with caution, skepticism and concern that the move may not end Damascus
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Syria's president said in remarks released Sunday that he has increased the number of troops on the border with Lebanon, a move apparently aimed to appease international demands to bolster security following the Israel-Hezbollah war.
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Lebanese troops prepared to deploy in   south Lebanon on Thursday to take control of Hizbollah   strongholds with U.N. peacekeepers as Israeli forces gradually   withdraw after a 34-day war with the guerrillas.
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The Security Council calls for foreign troops to leave Lebanon -  a move aimed at reducing Syrian influence.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose country is under fire at the United Nations over its troop presence in Lebanon, rejected charges that Damascus was seeking to dominate its smaller neighbor.
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Syria has not complied with a Security Council demand to pull its troops out of Lebanon and says it is unable to give any indication of when it might do so, Secretary General Kofi Annan said today.
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Some 300 Syrian troops in a convoy of trucks and armored vehicles crossed the Lebanese border into Syria early Thursday as part of the ongoing redeployment that started on Tuesday.
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Syria, under growing international pressure to end its long-time military presence in Lebanon, began pulling back more than 1,000 of its 20,000 troops today.
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct 19: The UN Security Council on Tuesday urged Syria to withdraw its remaining troops from neighbouring Lebanon and asked Secretary-General Kofi Annan to continue reporting any progress.
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The Syrian army carried out Saturday a limited redeployment in Lebanon, pulling army intelligence troops out of the Beirut airport, the southern suburbs of Beirut and northern Lebanon, a Lebanese army officer told AFP.