U.S. Official: Syria Border More Secure
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The State Department's No. 2 official said Sunday that Syria had improved security along its border with Iraq but needed to do more to keep armed supporters of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from sneaking across.
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The United States wants to better secure its border with Canada, but it might have trouble finding it in some areas, an official with the agency that maintains the border said.
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After six months of public tension between Syria and the United States, relations have settled down into a more pragmatic mode. At least this is how Syria's ambassador to Washington,    Imad Moustapha , describes it.
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The raid on the American embassy in Damascus signals a greater threat to the Syrian regime than to the U.S.
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Europeans travelling to America could face tighter travel restrictions, US head of homeland security says
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The United States said Wednesday there was clear evidence of arms smuggling across the Syrian border to terrorist groups in Lebanon, and accused Iran and Syria of playing a negative role in the country.
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DAMASCUS -- US Senator Bill Nelson met President Bashar al-Assad of Syria yesterday, a week after a US bipartisan panel recommended the Bush administration engage Syria to help stabilize Iraq. Nelson, a Florida Democrat, was named to the Intelligence Committee this week and said he was on a fact-finding mission to the region. Members of the US Congress have shunned ...
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ROME - A senior US nuclear arms official said yesterday that North Koreans were in Syria and that Damascus may have had contacts with "secret suppliers" to obtain nuclear equipment.
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BELLINGHAM, Wash.  - The U.S. government is  stepping up efforts to patrol its porous northern border with  Canada by using helicopters, airplanes and boats to monitor  illegal immigration and drug traffic, officials said on Friday.
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US officials say Syria has agreed to tighten its border with Iraq to prevent insurgents from entering the country. The State Department says Syria agreed to coordinate with Iraqi and multinational forces.
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The US thanks Syria for preventing an attack on its embassy in Damascus in which at least three gunmen die.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued a veiled warning to Syria on Tuesday, saying a Lebanon tribunal must be safe while it handles the murder of a Lebanese leader, a prominent critic of Syrian influence in Lebanon.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says his country can play a major role in bringing security to Iraq.
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President Bashar Assad said cooperation &#151; and negotiations &#151; between Syria and the United States could be the "last chance" to avoid full-scale civil war in Iraq.
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A senior U.S. diplomat held talks on Monday with a Syrian official on how Damascus was coping with a flood of Iraqi refugees, the first such talks in the Syrian capital for more than two years.
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The US says Syria has agreed to tighten its border with Iraq to stop militants crossing the border.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell yesterday praised Syria for its plan to redeploy some of its troops in Lebanon and its willingness to do more to control its border with Iraq.