State Department official applies to visit Syria
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WASHINGTON -- A senior State Department official has applied for a visa to travel to Syria to address the problems of Iraqi refugees, further eroding the Bush administration's previous position of not engaging in direct talks with Damascus.
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A senior Israeli defense official has threatened Syria on Monday, and accused President Bashar Assad of involvement in terrorism. He, moreover, said that Syria could face pre-emptive strikes against fighters
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The US State Department objects to a bill that would require it to set up an office on anti-Semitism.
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A senior U.S. State Department official toured a Darfur refugee camp on Monday, assessing conditions for thousands of displaced people on the final day of a U.N. deadline for the Sudanese government to end violence in the troubled western region.
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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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Exclusive: 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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WASHINGTON: The United States believes Syria is now willing to cooperate with Iraqi authorities and the US-led coalition on patrolling the Syria-Iraq border, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said here on Wednesday.
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The United States is increasing its pressure against Syria to force the Arab state to stop backing anti-Israeli resistance in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon, Syria's information minister said Saturday.
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TEHRAN -- Iran and Syria, both locked in diplomatic battles with the United States, said yesterday they would form a common front to face challenges and threats. "We are ready to help Syria on all grounds," Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref of Iran said in Tehran after meeting Prime Minister Naji al-Otari of Syria. Syria's ambassador to the United States, ...
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The European Union's foreign policy chief urged Syria on Wednesday to do more to help stabilize Lebanon and Iraq during a visit that ended a two-year freeze on high-level EU contacts with Damascus.
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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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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 State Department did not head off a massive backlog of passport applications before this summer's peak travel season, despite warnings as early as November that demand was running far higher than expected, congressional investigators said yesterday.
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The US embassy in Cyprus appeals for information on a senior diplomat who has been missing for three days.
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The US State Department says FBI agents will be sent to Sudan to investigate the murder of a diplomat.
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Syria calls for a "serious dialogue" with the US as the most senior US official in two years visits Damascus.
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The United States moved to reduce   its diplomatic presence in Syria on Thursday following an   attack on its embassy in Damascus, by offering free flights   home to dependents and nonessential diplomats who wish to   leave.