Syria seeks to gain from regional tumult
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The isolation of Syria appears to be breaking as Damascus seeks deals with the Saudis and the Lebanese.
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Pointing to Lebanon as a stable exception in a troubled neighborhood, President Bashar Assad has suggested an end to Syrian intervention in Lebanon would lead to chaos there.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan   began talks with Syrian officials on Thursday to seek Syria's   help in bolstering a truce between Israel and Lebanon's   Hizbollah.
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Based on information gathered during the recent fighting in Fallujah, Baghdad and elsewhere in the Sunni Triangle, officials said that a handful of senior Iraqi Baathists operating in Syria are collecting money and turning it over to the insurgency.
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Iran and the United States are playing a complicated diplomatic game, jockeying for influence in Iraq as violence there spirals out of control, but there is one major wild card in dueling summits planned for coming days: Syria.
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Syria has embarked on an "unprecedented" effort to bolster its armed forces with Iranian and Russian help, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported Thursday.
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The United States says Syria has agreed to implement a series of measures to improve the security of its border with Iraq. The decision follows two days of talks in Damascus involving officials from the Syrian
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Officials from regional states including Iran and Syria will join U.S. and British envoys at a meeting in Baghdad next month to seek ways to stabilize Iraq, the Iraqi foreign minister said on Tuesday.
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Israel is stepping up its rhetoric against neighboring Syria, with senior officials publicly blaming Damascus for Tuesday&#39;s suicide bus bombings in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva.
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DAMASCUS, Syria-- The dire security conditions in Iraq have overshadowed many of the Bush administration's diplomatic priorities in Syria, prompting US officials to focus their efforts here on enlisting the government's help in stabilizing the country's eastern border with Iraq.
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DAMASCUS -- It is unclear who engineered the attack that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and at least nine others, but his death has pitched Syria into deeper isolation and vulnerability.
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Damascus does not believe that either the US or Israel want a comprehensive regional settlement.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq said yesterday that it would restore diplomatic ties with Syria after a break of nearly a quarter-century in an effort to solidify links with a neighbor seen as a conduit for insurgents fueling the violence in Iraq.
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DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syria is responding with a mixture of bravado and denial to mounting accusations by the United States and Iraq that it is a staging ground for the Iraqi insurgency, with key support coming from a half brother of Saddam Hussein and Ba'ath Party leaders here.
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Iran and Syria, both locked in rows with  the United States, said on Wednesday they will form a common  front to face challenges and threats.
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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 is responding with a mixture of bravado and denial to mounting accusations by the United States and Iraq that it&#39;s a staging ground for the Iraqi insurgency with key