Sealing Syria's desolate border
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US and Iraqi officials have criticized Syria for not keeping fighters and funds out of Iraq.
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Syria began to redeploy its forces from the outskirts of Beirut yesterday in an apparent attempt to fend off growing international pressure to end its 28-year military control of Lebanon.
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Toops continue to reassert control of border with Gaza by using water cannon to block Palestinians
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Iraq will re-open its borders with Iran and Syria, closed earlier this week in the initial stages of a security crackdown, a spokesman for the officer overseeing the plan said on Saturday.
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MASYAF, Syria  - Nestled at the foot of Syria's coastal mountains, an ancient citadel has been put on the tourist map by restoration and excavation that revealed mysteries of the medieval Assassins sect, once based here.
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ALI JEGK, Arizona  - Members of a traditional Indian nation spanning the Arizona-Mexico border are complaining that work to put up a new barrier to secure the border has desecrated an ancient burial ground.
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Syria said on Saturday it did not accept   the deployment of European guards on the Lebanese side of the   two countries' border to help prevent alleged arms shipments to   Hizbollah.
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Independent experts have pinpointed what they believe to be the Euphrates River site in Syria that was bombed by Israel last month, and satellite imagery of the area shows buildings under construction roughly similar in design to a North Korean reactor capable of producing nuclear material for one...
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Police begin to reseal border after tens of thousands of Palestinians smashed through fence
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Pilgrim buses clog a road just outside the Old City of Damascus. Partly to solve that nuisance, municipal planners want to carve a highway through a historic but neglected quarter of the Syrian capital.
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Security along the Lebanon-Syria border is too lax to prevent arms smuggling and Lebanon should quickly establish a mobile force to intercept any weapons, a U.N.-appointed team said in a report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
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The current Syrian withdrawal of some of its troops from Lebanon has sparked a lively debate about the real causes and possible consequences of the move.
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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.
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Forest fires destroyed most of three villages near the Syrian-Turkish border, officials said, forcing 3,000 people to evacuate as Syrian and Turkish firefighters extinguished the blazes on Wednesday.
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Aid agencies said Thursday an open border remained vital to the shipment of relief supplies into Lebanon after Syria reportedly threatened to seal its border if international troops are deployed along it.
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Iraq has closed its borders with Iran and Syria as part of a security crackdown aimed at stopping foreign fighters and weapons entering the country, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said on Thursday.
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ABU KAMAL, Syria  - Across the frontier in Iraq,  U.S. soldiers eye the Syrian checkpoint with suspicion,  checking for danger on a border Washington says has let through  too many militants.