Syria frees political detainees
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It is reported to be the biggest single amnesty for three years. The official Sana news agency said it was part of an &quot;open and tolerant policy&quot;.
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Syrian soldiers dismantled their camps in the hills above Beirut on Wednesday. The United States praised the move but said Syria must still end its political dominance of Lebanon.
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The U.S. military dropped spy  charges against a Syrian-American airman who worked as a  translator at the anti-terror detention center at Guantanamo on  Wednesday after he agreed to plead guilty to several lesser  charges, officials said.
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Two men are in custody and a Syrian-based leader of the Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas has been indicted in a terrorism investigation involving a scheme to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars to Hamas from Muslims
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Two Lebanese hostages have been released after more than three weeks in captivity in Iraq, a Lebanese Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday.
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Three foreign U.N. workers held in Afghanistan since Oct. 28 were freed on Tuesday, government officials said.
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Egypt yesterday freed an Israeli member of the Druze religion convicted of spying, in exchange for Jerusalem&#39;s release of six Egyptian students - a move that
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U.S. authorities Thursday released two Guantanamo Bay detainees and sent them back to their native Kuwait, where supporters planned to welcome them at the airport.
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NARATHIWAT, Thailand - Hundreds of Muslim men were freed in southern Thailand on Saturday after being detained last week in the wake of protests that left 85 dead and outraged Muslims worldwide.
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Security forces stop Syrian human rights activists from staging a demonstration against political detentions.
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Seventeen Afghans were released Thursday from a U.S. base at the center of an investigation into the deaths of two prisoners in custody, the international Red Cross said.
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Rangoon, Myanmar/Burma - Military officials have released almost 4,000 political prisoners, including several members of Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s National League for Democracy.
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Syria's most prominent political dissident has been rearrested in a new crackdown on opposition figures by President Bashar al-Assad's regime
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The United States moved on Thursday   to reduce its diplomatic presence in Syria following this   week's attack on its embassy in Damascus by offering free   flights out of the country to non-essential diplomats and   family members on a voluntary basis.
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Yaser Esam Hamdi, a Saudi-American citizen who was captured on the Afghanistan battlefield and held without charges for nearly three years, has been freed and returned Monday to Saudi Arabia.
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Three international workers held hostage in Afghanistan&#39;s capital, Kabul, for almost a month were freed today, the United Nations said.
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A top aide to radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was freed from US detention on Thursday, an aide to Sadr said. Sheikh Moayad al-Khazraji, who was believed to have been held