U.S. to invite Syria and Saudi Arabia to peace meeting
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The United States will invite the members of an Arab League panel that includes Syria and Saudi Arabia to a Middle East peace conference it plans to hold this year, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on  Tuesday he was ready for dialogue with the United States but  warned Washington against giving Damascus orders.
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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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WASHINGTON -- The United States agreed yesterday to join high-level talks with Iran and Syria on the future of Iraq, an abrupt shift in policy that opens the door to diplomatic dealings the White House had shunned in recent months despite mounting criticism.
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WASHINGTON -- Even as pressure mounts for the United States to work with the Syrian government, the White House and the State Department have been quietly building ties with Syrian dissidents, holding meetings in Washington and Damascus that some describe as a search for credible alternatives to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that key Arab nations, including Syria, would be invited to President Bush's planned Mideast peace conference this fall and expressed hope they would attend.
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Envoys from the Quartet of international powers trying to mediate peace in the Middle East will meet in Jerusalem on Tuesday, diplomats and Israeli officials said on Friday.
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U.S. officials will sit down with their Iranian and Syrian counterparts on Saturday at a conference in Baghdad aimed at stopping sectarian fighting in Iraq before the conflict spreads throughout the oil-rich region.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad is offering to make peace with Israel and says he is ready to cooperate with the United States in stabilizing Iraq, a former senior State Department official said Wednesday.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged  Gulf states Tuesday to take a greater role in securing Middle  East peace, and accused Syria of supporting terrorists bent on  destabilizing the region.
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US president working to persuade Saudi Arabia to maintain support for Israeli-Palestinian peace process
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Eight U.S.-allied Arab countries are banding together to meet with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her trip here, in hopes of reviving the deadlocked Arab-Israeli peace process and making headway on other regional issues.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi   Annan, trying to calm Middle East violence, met Jordan's King   Abdullah on Thursday before visiting Syria to seek its help in   upholding a truce between Israel and Lebanon's Hizbollah.
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The US secretary of state is to visit the Middle East to try to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace moves.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan met   Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Friday to seek his help in   bolstering a truce between Israel and Lebanon's Hizbollah   group, whose chief allies are Syria and Iran.
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U.S. ally Saudi Arabia said Tuesday it was working with Iran, America's top rival in the Mideast, to find ways to ease the crises in Lebanon and Iraq &#151; a departure from Washington's confrontational stance toward Tehran.
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Syria agreed in talks with U.S. and Iraqi officials to take "specific steps" to seal off its border with Iraq for anti-U.S. insurgents, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.